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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?

Es marzo de 1997 cuando Jack Reacher recibe la orden de dirigirse de encubierto a una pequeña población de Mississippi. ¿Su misión? Investigar el asesinato de una joven en el que podrían estar involucrados soldados de una base militar cercana. Lo que Reacher no se imagina es que quizá sea el principio del final de sus días como policía militar. La sheriff local Elizabeth Deveraux tiene sed de justicia y motivos de sobra para sospechar del ejército. Reacher deberá ganarse su confianza y unir fuerzas con ella para evitar que la verdad que otros pretenden ocultar quede enterrada para siempre.

Winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow, icy roads, a tired driver. A bus skids and crashes and is stranded in a gathering storm. There's a small town twenty miles away, where a vulnerable witness is guarded around the clock. There's a strange stone building five miles further on, all alone on the prairie. There's a ruthless man who controls everything from the warmth of Mexico.

"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.

Nella tranquilla cittadina di Gerrardsville, sotto il cielo azzurro del Colorado, una donna muore investita da un autobus. La polizia archivia il caso come suicidio, ma qualcosa non torna. E lo sa bene Jack Reacher, che ha assistito alla scena e ha visto un uomo muoversi furtivamente, spingere la donna sotto le ruote del mezzo e afferrare la sua borsa. Poco dopo, un’altra morte sospetta viene classificata come naturale e Reacher comincia a credere che non si tratti di una coincidenza.

Jack Reacher walks alone. No job, no ID, no last known address. Doesn’t want to be found. But he never turns down a plea for help. Especially from a woman. Now a woman tracks him down. A woman serving at the very heart of US power. A woman who needs Reacher’s native cunning, surly charm and controlled aggression to help her with her new job. Her job? Putting herself in the line of fire. Protecting the vice-president of the United States. Her problem? Someone wants the VP dead.

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.

An original short story about Jack Reacher, available exclusively in digital format (ebook and audio), following the success of last year's "Second Son". Early in his military career, Jack Reacher is ordered undercover in Washington, to discover which one of four women, all staff officers on fast track careers, is leaking secrets. The suggested method: get close to each in turn. The obvious problem: the most receptive will be the guilty one, with an agenda of her own - to kill the investigation ... and the investigator.

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.

"Public Transportation" is a short story from the collection Phoenix Noir. Brand-new stories by: Diana Gabaldon, Lee Child, James Sallis, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jon Talton, Megan Abbott, Charles Kelly, Robert Anglen, Patrick Millikin, Laura Tohe, Kurt Reichenbaugh, Gary Phillips, David Corbett, Don Winslow, Dogo Barry Graham, and Stella Pope Duarte.Patrick Millikin is a bookseller at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale.

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.

Wer diesen Anhalter mitnimmt, sollte nichts Böses im Schilde führen... Jack Reacher bemühte sich, harmlos auszusehen, was ihm mit seiner großen, massigen Gestalt und der gebrochenen Nase nicht leicht fiel. Umso dankbarer war er, als endlich ein Auto anhielt, um ihn mitzunehmen. Die Frau und die beiden Männer im Wagen waren Kollegen - zumindest vermutete Reacher das. Er wusste nichts von ihrer Verwicklung in den Mord, der nicht weit entfernt verübt worden war.

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.

Vor sechs Jahren quittierte Jack Reacher, damals Spitzenermittler der US-Militärpolizei, den Dienst. Er tauchte unter - unerreichbar, unauffindbar. Doch jetzt kommt der rastlose Einzelgänger freiwillig aus der Deckung. Durch puren Zufall ist er einem Mann begegnet, den er seit zehn Jahren für tot gehalten hat. Die Narben auf dessen Stirn erinnern Reacher an sein furchtbarstes Erlebnis, und er weiß: Noch immer geht von dem Janusmann eine tödliche Gefahr aus.

Never forgive, never forget. That’s Jack Reacher’s standard operating procedure. And Francis Xavier Quinn was the worst guy he had ever met. He had done truly unforgivable things. So Reacher was glad to know he was dead. Until the day he saw him, alive and well, riding in a limousine outside Boston’s Symphony Hall.Never apologize. Never explain. When Reacher witnesses a brutal attempt to kidnap a terrified young student on a New England campus, he takes the law into his own hands.

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.

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".

Auf dem Weg von Tampa nach nirgendwo steigt der ehemalige Militärpolizist Jack Reacher in einer Kleinstadt in Georgia aus dem Bus. Wenige Stunden später findet er sich im Gefängnis wieder. Er steht unter Mordverdacht. Doch statt einer schnellen Lösung hat Detective Finley bald zwei große Probleme: einen Hauptverdächtigen, der seine Unschuld beweisen kann, und das Geständnis eines Bankers, der die Tat nicht begangen hat.

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.

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?