- Fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, thrillers, general, New York Times bestseller
"Family secrets come back to haunt Jack Reacher in this electrifying thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, "a superb craftsman of suspense" (Entertainment Weekly).
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Lee Child
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 410
- Publisher
- Luitingh Sijthoff, Albatros, Dell
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- Dutch, Chinese, German, Polish
- ISBN
- 9789024577194
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“Jack Reacher caught the last of the summer sun in a small town on the coast of Maine, and then, like the birds in the sky above him, he began his long migration south.”
Lee Child was born in 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. He was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars' worth of paper and pencils and sat down
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