Better Off Dead: (Jack Reacher 26)

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On arriving though, Reacher finds out that the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner, has been arrested. King uses the phrase keeping it on the down-low in a way that suggests he probably doesn’t understand how this phrase is currently used—and has been used for quite a while. The settings for many of the novels are found within the United States of America, in locales ranging from major metropolitan areas like New York City, Los Angeles and Washington, D. Reacher and Turner set out on a journey; Turner in hopes of clearing her name and Reacher to prove the charges fraudulent or if true then atone for them. Meanwhile, Reacher gets to know that Jill Hemingway had been suspended from the FBI, pending review as part of the deal cut by Croselli with the FBI and that she was planning to bring him down.

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The investigation leads him to the truth, and ultimately engage in a gun battle on a farm in Norfolk, England. Fenton, an army veteran and former FBI agent confides she is trying to rescue her twin brother, Michael (also a veteran), who is involved with some very dangerous people. Reacher is under suspicion and arrested; as a former US military policeman, a loner and a drifter, he matches the psychological criminal profile prepared by FBI Special Agent Julia Lamarr. But fans of his fists needn’t fret, as he has plenty of occasion to whale the bejesus out of the bad guys. Reacher's travels outside the United States have taken him to rural England ( The Hard Way, Maybe They Have a Tradition), London ( Personal), Hamburg ( Night School) and Paris ( The Enemy, Personal).The assignment that awaits him: the army is meeting with its Capitol Hill paymasters for classified talks on a new, state-of-the-art sniper rifle for US forces. Reacher is mentioned several times in the Stephen King novel Under the Dome, where he is described by the character Colonel Cox as "the toughest goddam Army cop that ever served, in my humble opinion.

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He helps the female occupant who is on a quest to find her twin brother; but the brother turns out to be a violent criminal. The book was published after the novella "Too Much Time" that is included in the collection of short stories in No Middle Name Released in May 2017. Reacher is good at finding people who don’t want to be found, so he offers to help, despite feeling that Fenton is keeping secrets of her own. Jack Reacher has an unusual encounter in a diner reminiscent of the Edward Hopper painting " Nighthawks". Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense.He encounters various characters, both allies, including the new county District Attorney from the north, and foe, the police chief and the mayor, all on the payroll of the mastermind, a corrupt, philanthropic, "pillar of the community;" as he fights to prove his innocence. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. The Belfast Telegraph on the Jack Reacher books: "2012 marks a landmark year for Lee Child, whose Jack Reacher thrillers have now sold in excess of 60 million copies worldwide. However, at her remote ranch in Echo County Reacher encounters lies, prejudice and hatred climaxing in Carmen being arrested for the murder of her husband.

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He reasons with her, but she shoots herself; thereby proving Reacher wrong when he concluded she was a bomber. To maintain the consistency of the brand, Andrew adopted the pen name Andrew Child to carry the series into the future. It seemed better that he exited the stage while the books were still hitting the bestseller list on the strength of the Lee Child name than to turn out bad ones. This novel was adapted for the first season of the 2022 series, Reacher starring Alan Ritchson in the titular role. This novella, published in 2013, [7] opens on 13 July 1977 [8] with an almost seventeen year old Reacher stopping by in New York in the middle of a heat wave to visit his brother at West Point when he encounters a woman (Jill Hemingway) being assaulted by a man.So, when I had the opportunity to snag an advance copy of Better Off Dead from the publisher, I jumped at the chance. A CIA informant in a Jihadist sleeper cell in Hamburg, Germany, has relayed the message "The American wants a hundred million dollars". The Child brothers’ superb second collaboration (after 2020’s The Sentinel) opens one night at a remote spot on the U. Those who have never read a Jack Reacher novel but enjoy a gripping, suspenseful thriller will also enjoy Better Off Dead.