- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Private investigators, Murder, Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is lying low in Key West, digging up swimming pools by hand. He is not at all pleased when a private detective starts asking questions about him. But when the detective, Costello, turns up dead with his fingertips sliced off, Reacher realizes it is time to move on.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Lee Child
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 422
- Publisher
- Jove, Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, Putnam
- Editions
- 46
- Language
- Spanish, Polish, gre, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9781407070216
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“JACK REACHER SAW the guy step in through the door.”
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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