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For Jack Reacher being invisible has become a habit. He spends his days digging swimming pools by hand and his nights as the bouncer in the local strip club in the Florida Keys. He doesn't want to be found. But someone has sent a private detective to seek him out. Then Reacher finds the guy beaten to death with his fingertips sliced off. It's time to head north and work out who is trying to find him and why.

Never forgive, never forget. That's Jack Reacher's operating principle. And Quinn was one of the worst guys he ever had the misfortune to meet. He had done unforgivable things. So Reacher was glad to know Quinn was dead. Until the day he saw someone who looked an awful lot like him, alive and well, riding in a limousine outside Boston's Symphony Hall.

Jack Reacher hits the pavement and sticks out his thumb. He plans to follow the sun on an epic trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn’t get far. On a country road deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been: the town where his father was born. He thinks, What’s one extra day? He takes the detour.

Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005. A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan. The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside. Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years. He decides to find out. And find the woman. And return her ring. Why not?

Mother's Rest. Un piccolo paese in mezzo a un immenso campo di grano, popolato da individui scontrosi e lunatici. Jack Reacher si chiede il perché di quel nome particolare, ma nessuno sembra intenzionato a dare spiegazioni. Lungo la strada, Reacher incontra una donna visibilmente turbata: Michelle Chang. La giovane sembra averlo scambiato per un altro e, chiarito il malinteso, si confida: l'uomo con cui stava seguendo un'investigazione privata è scomparso da giorni e, ormai, Michelle teme il peggio.

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.

Un ex poliziotto militare di alto rango, dopo aver lasciato il servizio, si è spostato per anni da un posto all'altro, senza famiglia, senza averi, senza impegni, ma soprattutto senza paura. Ottimo, perché i problemi, quelli grossi, violenti e complessi, trovano Jack Reacher ovunque si trovi. E, quando arrivano i problemi, Reacher non si arrende mai. Questa volta infatti deve vedersela con una questione lasciata in sospeso, condizione inaccettabile per un uomo che detesta qualunque cosa sia in sospeso.

Una donna viene trovata morta nella vasca da bagno, nuda, il corpo immerso in una vernice color verde militare. Il suo nome è Amy Callan. Lo stesso accade a Caroline Cooke. Nessun segno di violenza, nessuna impronta digitale, nessuna fibra da analizzare: la causa della morte risulta inspiegabile persino per i migliori patologi dell'FBI. Sulle scene dei delitti non ci sono segni di effrazione, come se le donne, prima di morire, avessero ricevuto in casa una persona conosciuta.

Im Jahr 1996 belauscht ein Undercover-Agent der CIA ein Gespräch zwischen islamistischen Terroristen in Hamburg. "Der Amerikaner will hundert Millionen Dollar." Doch er kann nicht herausfinden, wer diese Summe verlangt und wofür. Fest steht nur, dass es um einen Terroranschlag in ungeahntem Ausmaß geht. Die CIA stellt eine Spezialeinheit auf, um in Deutschland zu ermitteln. Dafür zieht sie mit Jack Reacher auch den besten Militärpolizisten hinzu, den die U.S. Army zu bieten hat.

Im Jahr 1996 belauscht ein Undercover-Agent der CIA ein Gespräch zwischen islamistischen Terroristen in Hamburg. "Der Amerikaner will hundert Millionen Dollar." Doch er kann nicht herausfinden, wer diese Summe verlangt und wofür. Fest steht nur, dass es um einen Terroranschlag in ungeahntem Ausmaß geht. Die CIA stellt eine Spezialeinheit auf, um in Deutschland zu ermitteln. Dafür zieht sie mit Jack Reacher auch den besten Militärpolizisten hinzu, den die U.S. Army zu bieten hat.

Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go and all the time in the world to get there. Then, he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you know what they say about good deeds. Now, Reacher wants to make it right. An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a brutal turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs.

15 thriller masters. 1 masterful thriller! Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score by Frederic Chopin. But he is unaware that, within it's handwritten notes, lies a secret that now threatens the lives of thousands of Americans. As he races from Poland to the U.S. to uncover the mystery of the manuscript, Middleton will be accused of murder, pursued by federal agents, and targeted by assassins.

Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go and all the time in the world to get there. Then, he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you know what they say about good deeds. Now, Reacher wants to make it right. An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a brutal turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs.

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?

In a nameless city, two ruthless rival criminal gangs, one Albanian, the other Ukrainian, are competing for control. But they hadn’t counted on Jack Reacher arriving on their patch. Reacher is trained to notice things. He’s on a Greyhound bus, watching an elderly man sleeping in his seat, with a fat envelope of cash hanging out of his pocket. Another passenger is watching too...obviously hoping to get rich quick. As the mugger makes his move, Reacher steps in....

Exit Wounds is a thrilling anthology of crime stories written by masters of the genre, including Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Elly Griffiths, Dennis Lehane, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.

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.

Get ready for a turbo-charged short listen from two of the world’s biggest thriller writers. Jack Reacher and Will Trent. Twice the action. Twice the drama. Double the trouble. 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.

From the Stone Age to the Greek Tragedies, from Shakespeare to Robin Hood, we have always had our heroes. The hero is at the centre of formative myths in every culture and persists to this day in world-conquering books, films and TV shows. But why do these characters continue to inspire us, and why are they so central to storytelling? Scalpel-sharp on the roots of storytelling and enlightening on the history and science of myth, The Hero is essential listening for anyone trying to write or understand fiction.

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.