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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.

Il maggiore Jack Reacher ha un passato da eroe: West Point, tredici anni di servizio, medaglie e riconoscimenti. Il suo presente, invece, è quello di un uomo che si è scrollato di dosso le inflessibili regole dell'esercito e che vaga per gli Stati Uniti, lasciandosi guidare soltanto dal proprio istinto. Almeno fino a quando, in una luminosa giornata di giugno, vede uscire da una tintoria di Chicago una giovane donna, che si appoggia faticosamente a una stampella. Jack si ferma e le offre aiuto, ma, non appena i due si avviano, si trovano davanti tre individui armati.

"Puoi lasciare l'esercito, ma l'esercito non lascia te. Non sempre. Non completamente." E infatti Jack Reacher deve tornare in servizio, richiamato dal dipartimento di Stato e dalla CIA. Qualcuno ha colpito il presidente francese mentre teneva un discorso a Parigi. Un solo colpo, sparato con estrema precisione da una distanza eccezionalmente lunga, un colpo che sarebbe stato letale se non l'avessero fermato le barriere protettive.

New York City, zwei Uhr nachts. Jack Reacher sitzt in der U-Bahn. Neben ihm befinden sich noch fünf weitere Personen im Abteil. Eine Frau erregt Reachers Aufmerksamkeit. Minutenlang beobachtet er sie genau - und ist sich sicher, eine Selbstmordattentäterin vor sich zu haben. Doch dann geschieht etwas Unerwartetes, und Reacher selbst gerät ins Kreuzfeuer.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Christmas Scorpion by Lee Child. Jack Reacher likes to head south for the winter, to stay warm, so just before Christmas he arrives in a small town in Southern California. But the weather there is not warm and dry, as it’s supposed to be: he arrives in a freak blizzard. Reacher finds refuge in a snowed-in roadhouse with four other strangers stranded by the storm.

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?

Scavare fosse per piscine a Key West, in Florida: un lavoro senza troppi problemi per un uomo che, di problemi, ne ha già avuti fin troppi. Così ha deciso di vivere Jack Reacher, anzi il maggiore Reacher, perché alle sue spalle ci sono West Point, tredici anni di servizio nella polizia militare, una serie interminabile di medaglie e riconoscimenti.

An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an empire, her thrillers helped save the world. With a foreword by Lee Child.

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, legendärer Spitzenermittler der Militärpolizei, quittierte vor Jahren den Dienst. Seither ist er abgetaucht, führt ein rastloses Leben als Einzelgänger ohne festen Wohnsitz. Dennoch wird er eines Tages von der ehemaligen Lebensgefährtin seines verstorbenen Bruders aufgespürt. Und sie überrascht ihn mit dem Anliegen, er möge im Auftrag des Secret Service ein Attentat auf den Vizepräsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten vorbereiten.

Sergeant Amy Callan und Lieutenant Caroline Cook haben einiges gemeinsam. Beide wollten Karriere bei der Armee machen, beide waren Opfer sexueller Belästigung, beide ließen sich anschließend vom Dienst suspendieren - und beide sind jetzt tot. Beide wurden in ihrer eigenen Badewanne aufgefunden, scheinbar ohne ein einziges Anzeichen für die Todesursache. Hochrangige Profiler des FBI beginnen fieberhaft die Jagd nach einem Serienmörder: Es stellt sich heraus, dass es sich um einen Angehörigen der Armee handeln muss.

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.

Unversöhnlich, unerbittlich, unschlagbar: Jack Reacher, der eigenwilligste Ermittler der amerikanischen Thrillerliteratur. Ein Mann und eine Frau treffen zufällig auf einer Straße in Chicago zusammen. Plötzlich tauchen zwei Männer auf und entführen die beiden mit vorgehaltener Waffe. Sie werden mit Handschellen aneinandergekettet, in einen Lieferwagen geworfen und in die tiefen Wälder Montanas gebracht. Die Frau ist Holly Johnson, Agentin des FBI und Tochter eines der ranghöchsten Generäle Washingtons. Der Mann ist Jack Reacher.

New York City, zwei Uhr nachts. Jack Reacher sitzt in der U-Bahn. Neben ihm befinden sich noch fünf weitere Personen im Abteil. Eine Frau erregt Reachers Aufmerksamkeit. Minutenlang beobachtet er sie genau - und ist sich sicher, eine Selbstmordattentäterin vor sich zu haben. Doch dann geschieht etwas Unerwartetes, und Reacher selbst gerät ins Kreuzfeuer.

In quel posto incredibile che si chiama Stati Uniti esistono, fra le mille stranezze, due piccole città: si trovano in Colorado e una si chiama Hope, l'altra, a pochi chilometri di distanza, si chiama Despair. "Speranza" e "disperazione": due opposti che non sembrano creare alcun problema a Jack Reacher, in fondo lui vuole soltanto un caffè prima di rimettersi in viaggio. Da anni l'ex maggiore dell'esercito Jack Reacher gira l'America; qualcuno potrebbe chiamarlo "vagabondo", lui preferisce "libero".

The brand new Jack Reacher short story, published as a digital exclusive. The tiny town of Naismith has nothing going for it - except the start of a wilderness trail through Maine's ancient forests. But one day the trail is suddenly closed by county police. No reason is given. Rumours start - is there something in the woods that no one must see? That no one must even know about? Then Jack Reacher drifts into town. What does he make of the Do Not Enter tape strung between the trees?

In recent years, nicotine has become as verboten as many hard drugs. The literary styles in this volume are as varied as the moral quandaries herein, and the authors have successfully unleashed their incandescent imaginations on the subject matter, fashioning an immensely addictive collection.

Nome: Jack Reacher, ex agente della polizia militare, un vero duro, onesto, coraggioso, praticamente una leggenda vivente. Luogo: Margrave, una tranquilla cittadina della Georgia rurale, dove non succede niente, dove è difficile immaginare che qualcosa possa succedere. Ora, quasi per caso, sull'onda di un vago ricordo, Jack arriva a Margrave, proprio nel momento in cui viene scoperto un efferato delitto. Mezz'ora dopo viene arrestato per omicidio. Ma Jack non ha ucciso nessuno, perlomeno non a Margrave.

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.

In this new exclusive short story, number-one Sunday Times best-selling author Lee Child goes back to 1989, when Jack Reacher is serving as an officer in the military police. A young lieutenant colonel in a stylish handmade uniform roars through the damp woods of Georgia in her new silver Porsche - until she meets a very tall soldier with a broken-down car. What could connect a cold-blooded off-post shooting with Reacher; his elder brother, Joe; and a secretive unit of pointy heads from the Pentagon?