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In the morning, they gave Reacher a medal. And in the afternoon, they sent him back to school. Night School takes Reacher back to his army days, but this time he's not in uniform. With trusted sergeant Frances Neagley at his side, he must carry the fate of the world on his shoulders in a wired, fiendishly clever new adventure that will make cold sweat trickle down your spine.

Es el fin del verano y Jack Reacher planea hacer un viaje épico que lo lleve desde Maine, en el extremo noreste de Estados Unidos, en diagonal hasta el sur de California, siguiendo el sol. Pero no va a llegar lejos. Un cartel junto a un camino rural anuncia un nombre que Reacher conoce pero donde nunca ha estado: el lugar de nacimiento de su padre. ¿Qué le hace un día más al viaje? Reacher toma el desvío.

Se acerca el invierno y a Jack Reacher lo buscan desde el corazón mismo del poder: el Servicio Secreto de los Estados Unidos lo necesita. La misión es tan secreta como urgente, y el más mínimo fallo puede poner en riesgo la democracia más sólida del planeta. Entre pistas ambiguas, profundas desconfianzas y la presencia fantasmal de su hermano, Reacher deberá afinar al extremo sus sentidos y mantener su cabeza despejada –si su corazón se lo permite– para investigar las intrigas de Washington y de las fuerzas de seguridad.

“Why is this town called Mother’s Rest?” That’s all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It’s a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal.

Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. A remote railroad stop on the prairie with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover. He expects to find a lonely pioneer tombstone in a sea of nearly-ripe wheat. Instead there is a woman waiting for a missing colleague, a cryptic note about two hundred deaths, and a small town full of silent, watchful people.

Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook have a lot in common. Both were army high-flyers. Both were acquainted with Jack Reacher. Both were forced to resign from the service. Now they're both dead. Both were found in their own home, naked, in a bath full of paint. Both were apparent victims of an army man - a loner, a smart guy with a score to settle, a ruthless vigilante. A man just like Jack Reacher.

For the first time ever, legendary editor Otto Penzler has handpicked some of the most respected and best-selling thriller writers working today for a riveting collection of spy fiction. From first to last, this stellar collection signals mission accomplished.

Um diesen Gegner zu schlagen, muss Reacher sterben! Unter der gleißenden Sonne durchstreift der ehemalige Militärpolizist Jack Reacher die Wüste Arizonas. Da entdeckt er einen Wagen, der gegen den einzigen Baum weit und breit gekracht ist. Die Fahrerin hält ihn zunächst für ein Mitglied der Bande, die den Unfall verursacht hat. Doch nachdem Reacher das Missverständnis ausgeräumt hat, entschließt er sich sogar, ihr zu helfen, die Verbrecher zu stellen. Denn die Kriminellen haben ihren Bruder – ein Spezialist für Bomben – entführt und wollen mit dessen erzwungener Hilfe einen schrecklichen Plan umsetzen.

Jack Reacher, ex-military drifter of no fixed abode, is stalked and tracked down by an FBI agent. She tells him that in a house raid in Sydney, Australian law enforcement found a list. There were four people on it, including him. The other three are dead. Hours later, Reacher is in the air, on his way to Sydney. What was the evil buried 25 years ago that has now resurfaced? Will Reacher be able to find the killers before they find him?

Dr. Margaret Richter has it all. She’s rich, thanks to her best-selling self-help books. She has a beautiful home in Cape Cod overlooking the beach. And she has a monthly book club that everyone is dying to get invited to. Literally. Because behind the crystal wine glasses, the fine linens and the catered hors d'oeuvres lies a tangled web of secrets, of deceit, of murder. No member of the book club is innocent—and many are guilty. And the person with the most to hide is Margaret Richter herself.

New Year's Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. Soon America won't have any enemies left to fight. The army is under pressure to downsize. Jack Reacher is the duty military police officer on a base in North Carolina when he takes a call reporting a dead soldier. The body was found in a sleazy motel used by local hookers. Reacher tells the local cop to handle it, it sounds like the guy just had a heart attack. But the dead man turns out to have been a two-star general on a secret mission.

La curiosidad por el origen del nombre del pueblo lleva a Jack Reacher a Mother's Rest, un paraje rural en el centro de Oklahoma. Allí, al bajarse del tren nocturno, en una estación en medio de la nada, se encuentra a Michelle Chang, exagente del FBI y actual detective privado que lo confunde con Keever, un compañero de trabajo que lleva algunos días desaparecido. La excentricidad del lugar, el comportamiento de sus habitantes y la misteriosa desaparición de Keever llevan a Reacher a aliarse con Chang y a adentrarse en una investigación para desentrañar los últimos días del detective.

Ever wondered what early experiences shaped Reacher's explosive career as butt-kicker supreme, the one-man guided-missile battler for justice? In this original new short story, Lee Child looks back on an incident in his hero Jack Reacher's teenage years as the younger son of a tough career US Marine, on a faraway military base in the Pacific.

Eine Kleinstadt im Nirgendwo. Ein unvorstellbares Verbrechen. Nur Jack Reacher nimmt den Kampf auf. Jack Reacher folgt einem plötzlichen Impuls, als er in der Kleinstadt Mother's Rest irgendwo im Mittleren Westen aus dem Zug steigt. Die Privatermittlerin Michelle Chang wartete dort vergeblich auf ihren Partner und kommt mit Reacher ins Gespräch. Allein durch die wenigen beiläufig geäußerten Worte gerät dieser ins Visier einer skrupellosen Bande, die bereits Changs Partner auf dem Gewissen hat.

John Kott ist einer der besten Scharfschützen, die die U.S. Army jemals hervorgebracht hat. Doch er ist auch ein skrupelloser Mörder, der den französischen Präsidenten erschießen wollte. Das Attentat schlug fehl, aber in Kürze wird der Killer eine neue Gelegenheit haben: den G8-Gipfel in London. Es gibt nur einen Mann, der ihn aufhalten kann. Nur einen, der Kott ebenbürtig ist. Jener Mann, der Kott schon einmal ins Gefängnis brachte: Jack Reacher.

Jack Reacher - six foot five and dangerous. Adrift in the hellish heat of Texas. Moving like a shark in the water. Looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A Cadillac stops. A ride, but with a hitch. A pretty young woman, alone. Her husband's in jail. When he comes out, he's going to kill her. Her family's hostile, she can't trust the cops, and lawyers won't help. Reacher is her last option. Will this be the first time he says no - to a lady in distress?

Eine Kleinstadt im Nirgendwo. Ein unvorstellbares Verbrechen. Nur Jack Reacher nimmt den Kampf auf. Jack Reacher folgt einem plötzlichen Impuls, als er in der Kleinstadt Mother's Rest irgendwo im Mittleren Westen aus dem Zug steigt. Die Privatermittlerin Michelle Chang wartete dort vergeblich auf ihren Partner und kommt mit Reacher ins Gespräch. Allein durch die wenigen beiläufig geäußerten Worte gerät dieser ins Visier einer skrupellosen Bande, die bereits Changs Partner auf dem Gewissen hat.

Thriller master Lee Child presents an exclusive ebook novella about the teenage Reacher. July 1977. Jack Reacher is almost seventeen, and he stops in New York on his way from South Korea to visit his brother at West Point. The summer heat is suffocating, fires are raging in the Bronx, the city is bankrupt, and the mad gunman known as Son of Sam is still on the loose. Reacher meets a woman with a problem, and agrees to help her... and then the power grid fails and the lights go out, plunging the lawless city that never sleeps into chaos.

Will Trent is undercover at Fort Knox. His assignment: to investigate a 22-year-old murder. His suspect's name: Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher is in Fort Knox on his own mission: to bring down a dangerous criminal ring operating at the heart of America’s military. Except now Will Trent is on the scene. But there’s a bigger conspiracy at play - one that neither the special agent nor the ex-military cop could have anticipated.

Zwei gottverlassene Dörfer in Colorado. Hope und Despair. Hoffnung und Verzweiflung. Dazwischen nichts weiter als meilenweit Niemandsland. Jack Reacher, per Anhalter unterwegs, strandet ausgerechnet in Despair. Er will nur einen Kaffee trinken und dann weiterziehen, doch vier düstere Gesellen wollen ihn wegen Landstreicherei von der Gemarkung verweisen. Reacher geht die Freiheit zwar über alles, aber einen Platzverweis lässt er sich nicht bieten.