Metro police, and four unidentified thugs.Ĭombining an intricate puzzle of a plot and an exciting chase for truth and justice, Lee Child puts Reacher through his paces - and makes him question who he is, what he’s done, and the very future of his untethered life on the open road. Reacher fights, aiming to find Turner and clear his name, barely a step ahead of the army, and the FBI, and the D.C. And Reacher is hit with two pieces of shocking news, one with serious criminal consequences, and one too personal to even think about. Reacher is there to meet - in person - the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner, so far just a warm, intriguing voice on the phone.īut it isn’t Turner behind the CO’s desk. The old stone building is the closest thing to a home he ever had. For another, the hero has become a bit chatty, talking more with other characters and telling readers more about his thinking - including how he maps out in advance the hand-to-hand he’ll engage in with thugs who outnumber him.Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South Dakota to his destination in northeastern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. For one thing, the technologically averse Reacher has now acquired a cell phone. It had a release date of Maand went on to win both the Barry Award and Anthony Award for Best First Novel. The change in authors is subtle but detectable. Lee Child Killing Floor Killing Floor by Lee Child is the first novel in his bestselling series of Jack Reacher books. ![]() It’s Andrew who wrote most of “The Sentinel.” But, because the names “Child” and Reacher” are forever bound together, he adopted the pen name Andrew Child to carry the series into the future. ![]() ![]() So Grant (aka Child), has turned the series over to his younger brother Andrew Grant, the author of nine thrillers published under his real name. Lately, he’s been working with Amazon to develop a Jack Reacher TV show starring Alan Ritchson, an actor as enormous and menacing as the character in the books - and a welcome change from the height-challenged Tom Cruise, who played the role in two Hollywood movies.īut Reacher, the mythic avenger who wanders the back roads of America like a modern-day Lone Ranger, is too popular with readers to just fade away. Reacher’s creator Lee Child, whose real name is Lee Grant, has said his days as a novelist are over. The cover of “The Sentinel” (Delacorte Press, $28.99), the 25th thriller in the wildly popular Jack Reacher series, says it was written by Lee Child and Andrew Child, though no one by either name actually wrote the book.
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