23 Popular Books and Best Sellers by Lee Child

Title: Make Me

“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. Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, and there’s something about Chang . . . so he teams up with her and starts to ask around. He thinks: How bad can this thing be? But before long he’s plunged into a desperate race through LA, Chicago, Phoenix, and San Francisco, and through the hidden parts of the internet, up against thugs and assassins every step of the way—right back to where he started, in Mother’s Rest, where he must confront the worst nightmare he could imagine. Walking away would have been easier. But as always, Reacher’s rule is: If you want me to stop, you’re going to have to make me.

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780804178792
Pages: 576

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Title: Worth Dying for: A Reacher Novel

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780440246299

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Title: The Enemy (Jack Reacher Series #8)

<p>Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier’s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army’s brightest stars. But in every cop’s life there is one case that changes everything. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.<br> <b><br> </b>New Year’s Day, 1990. In a North Carolina motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. Within hours the general’s wife is murdered. Then the dominoes really start to fall.</p> <p>Somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Reacher is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have. But Reacher won’t quit. He’s fighting a new kind of war–against an enemy he didn’t know he had. And against a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.</p>

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780440245995
Pages: 496

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Title: Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher Series #13)

<p>Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, and Afghanistan—by dozens of people with one thing in common: They’re all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or just enough to get him killed. A race has begun through the streets of Manhattan, a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. For Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, the finish line comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye.<br> &nbsp;</p>

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780440243687
Pages: 576

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Title: Echo Burning (Jack Reacher Series #5)

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780515143829

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Title: Persuader (Jack Reacher Series #7)

<p>Jack Reacher.</p> <p>The ultimate loner.</p> <p>An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he’s moved from place to place…without family…without possessions…without commitments.</p> <p>And without fear. Which is good, because trouble—big, violent, complicated trouble—finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not once…not ever.</p> <p>But some unfinished business has now found Reacher. And Reacher is a man who hates unfinished business.</p> <p>Ten years ago, a key investigation went sour and someone got away with murder. Now a chance encounter brings it all back. Now Reacher sees his one last shot. Some would call it vengeance. Some would call it redemption. Reacher would call it…justice.</p>

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780440245988
Pages: 496

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Title: A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher)

Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, another telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And a hitchhiker with a broken nose. An hour behind them, the FBI descends on an old pumping station where a man was stabbed to death—the knife work professional, the killers nowhere to be seen. All Jack Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy, in which nothing is what it seems, and nobody is telling the truth.

Author(s): Child, Lee

ISBN 13: 9780440246312

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Title: The Affair (Jack Reacher Series #16)

<p><b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER<br> </b><br> Everything starts somewhere. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997.<br> &nbsp;<br> A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A cover-up. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington.<br> &nbsp;<br> Reacher is ordered undercover to find out everything he can and then to vanish. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, Reacher meets local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux, who has a thirst for justice and an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust each other, they reluctantly join forces. Finding unexpected layers to the case, Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission—and turn him into a man to be feared.</p> <p class="null1">Don’t miss Lee Child’s short story “Second Son” and a sneak peek of his new novel, <i>A Wanted Man,</i> in the back of the book.</p>

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780440246305
Pages: 608

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Title: Jack Reacher: One Shot (Movie Tie-in Edition)

<p><b>Now a major motion picture</b><br> &nbsp;<br> <b>“Electrifying . . . This series [is] utterly addictive.”—Janet Maslin, <i>The New York Times</i></b><br> <b>&nbsp;</b><br> Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: <i>You got the wrong guy.</i> Then he says: <i>Get Reacher for me.</i><br> <i>&nbsp;</i><br> And sure enough, ex–military investigator Jack Reacher <i>is</i> coming. He knows this shooter—a trained military sniper who never should have missed a shot. Reacher is certain something is not right—and soon the slam-dunk case explodes.<br> &nbsp;<br> Now Reacher is teamed with a beautiful young defense lawyer, moving closer to the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings. Reacher knows that no two opponents are created equal. This one has come to the heartland from his own kind of hell. And Reacher knows that the only way to take him down is to match his ruthlessness and cunning—and then beat him shot for shot.<br> &nbsp;<br> <b>“Pulse-pounding action.”—<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i></b><br> <b>&nbsp;</b><br> <b>“Compelling, furiously paced.”<i>—Los Angeles Times</i></b><br> <b><i>&nbsp;</i></b><br> <b>“Crackles with excitement.”<i>—St. Petersburg Times</i></b><br> <b><i>&nbsp;</i></b><br> <b>“Pure adrenaline, from its well-constructed setup to its explosive, unforgettable finale.”<i>—The Miami Herald</i></b></p>

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780345538192
Pages: 496

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Title: The Hard Way (Jack Reacher Series #10)

<p>Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money because Edward Lane, the man who paid it, would do anything to get his family back.</p> <p>Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And Jack Reacher is the best manhunter in the world.</p> <p>On the trail of vicious kidnappers, Reacher learns the chilling secrets of his employer’s past . . . and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He knows that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: He’s already in way too deep to stop now. And if he has to do it the hard way, he will.</p>

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780440246008
Pages: 477

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Title: 61 Hours (Jack Reacher Series #14)

<p><b>#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER</b></p> <p>A bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she’ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.<br> &nbsp;<br> Reacher’s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessed—but so is the woman he’ll risk his life to save.</p>

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780440243694
Pages: 512

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Title: Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Series #12)

It wasn't the welcome Reacher expected. He was just passing through, minding his own business. But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope, setting up a base of operations against Despair, where a huge, seething walled-off industrial site does something nobody is supposed to see...where a small plane takes off every night and returns seven hours later...where a garrison of well-trained and well-armed military cops --the kind of soldiers Reacher once commanded--waits and watches...where above all two young men have disappeared and two frightened young women wait and hope for their return. Joining forces with a beautiful cop who runs Hope with a cool hand, Reacher goes up against Despair--against the deputies who try to break him and the rich man who tries to scare him--and starts to crack open the secrets, starts to expose the terrifying connection to a distant war that's killing Americans by the thousand.

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780440243670
Pages: 544

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Title: Inherit the Dead: A Novel

This New York Times and USA Today bestseller, now in paperback, is a collaboration between twenty bestselling mystery novelists who have joined forces to create a spellbinding story of love, betrayal, and intrigue. “Readers can’t go wrong with this juicy thriller” raves Library Journal. Pericles “Perry” Christo is a PI with a past—a former cop who lost his badge and his family when a corruption scandal left him broke and disgraced. So when wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla summons him one cold February night, he grabs what seems to be a straightforward (and lucrative) case. The socialite is looking for her beautiful, aimless daughter, Angelina, who is about to become a very wealthy young woman. But as Christo digs deeper, he discovers there’s much more to the lovely “Angel” than meets the eye. This classic noir tale twists and turns down New York’s mean streets and along Hamptons' beaches and back roads during a bitterly cold and gray winter where nothing is as it seems and everyone has something to hide. In this inventive “serial novel” storytelling approach, each of the twenty bestselling writers brings his or her distinctive voice to a chapter of Inherit the Dead, building the tension to a shocking, explosive finale. The editor, Jonathan Santlofer, has arranged to donate any royalties in excess of editor and contributor compensation to Safe Horizon, the leading victim assistance agency in the country.

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9781451684773
Pages: 304

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Title: Running Blind (Jack Reacher Series #4)

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780515143508

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Title: Night School

Discover the thriller series that The New York Times calls “utterly addictive.” After eleven straight global #1 bestsellers, Lee Child sends readers back to school with the most explosive Jack Reacher novel yet. It’s 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he’s off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind. Two other men are in the classroom—an FBI agent and a CIA analyst. Each is a first-rate operator, each is fresh off a big win, and each is wondering what the hell they are doing there. Then they find out: A Jihadist sleeper cell in Hamburg, Germany, has received an unexpected visitor—a Saudi courier, seeking safe haven while waiting to rendezvous with persons unknown. A CIA asset, undercover inside the cell, has overheard the courier whisper a chilling message: “The American wants a hundred million dollars.” For what? And who from? Reacher and his two new friends are told to find the American. Reacher recruits the best soldier he has ever worked with: Sergeant Frances Neagley. Their mission heats up in more ways than one, while always keeping their eyes on the prize: If they don’t get their man, the world will suffer an epic act of terrorism.

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9781524708351
Pages: 650

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Title: Jack Reacher Boxed Set

The first six books in Lee Child’s #1 New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher series are now available in a boxed set. This set includes paperback copies of Child’s stunning thrillers Killing Floor, Die Trying, Tripwire, Running Blind, Echo Burning, and Without Fail.

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780515154559

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Title: Killing Floor (Jack Reacher Series #1)

<p>INTRODUCING REACHER: The First Jack Reacher Novel</p> <p>NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR</p> <p>Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.</p> <p>See Jack Reacher now in his first major motion picture.</p> <p>A former military cop hunts down his brother's killers in this searing tale of revenge and honor. The sleepy, forgotten town of Margrave, Georgia, hasn't seen a crime in decades, but within the span of three days it witnesses crimes that leave everyone stunned. BOMC Alternate. 368 pp. 35,000 print. </p>

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780515153651
Pages: 560

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Title: Without Fail (Jack Reacher Series #6)

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780515144314

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Title: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS Never go back--but Jack Reacher does, and the past finally catches up with him.

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780399593253
Pages: 432

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Title: Die Trying (Jack Reacher Series #2)

In a quiet Chicago suburb, a dentist is attacked in his office parking lot and forced into the trunk of his Lexus. On a sidewalk downtown, Jack Reacher and an unknown woman are abducted in broad daylight. Wordlessly and without warning, two armed men - confident and rehearsed - hustle them into the same sedan. Then Reacher and the woman are switched into a second vehicle and hauled away. Reacher and this mysterious woman are caught between a group of men holding them for an impossible ransom and her colleagues, who will risk everything - even their lives - to save her. With only their wits and mutual trust between them, she and Reacher must escape an ingenious wilderness prison and the grasp of a man hell-bent on revenge.

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780515142242
Pages: 576

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Title: Tripwire (Jack Reacher Series #3)

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780515143072

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Title: Personal (with bonus short story Not a Drill): A Jack Reacher Novel

You can leave the army, but the army doesn’t leave you. Not always. Not completely, notes Jack Reacher—and sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled back into service. This time, for the State Department and the CIA. Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light. The bullet was American. The distance between the gunman and the target was exceptional. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? Very few, but John Kott—an American marksman gone bad—is one of them. And after fifteen years in prison, he’s out, unaccounted for, and likely drawing a bead on a G8 summit packed with enough world leaders to tempt any assassin

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780804178754
Pages: 544

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Title: Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher Series #11)

<p>From a helicopter high above the California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night . . . and Jack Reacher is plunged into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends.<br> &nbsp;<br> Reacher has no phone, no address, no ties. But a woman from his former military unit has found him using a signal only the eight members of their elite team would know. Then she tells him about the brutal death of one of their own. Soon they learn of the sudden disappearance of two other comrades. But Reacher won’t give up—because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, they’d better be ready for what comes right back at them.</p>

Author(s): Lee Child

ISBN 13: 9780440246015
Pages: 512

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