Margrave is a wonderful creation, a seemingly picture- perfect community under the care of a mysterious foundation where the streets are always swept and the people who run the tiny local businesses get grants of $1000 a week to stay open. Otherwise, Child writes with a hand as strong and steady as steel. The reader expects the other shoe to drop-for Reacher to be revealed as an undercover agent, or some such but it never does. This combination of events is so unbelievably convenient that it almost overwhelms the book's solid writing. Downsized out of the military, Reacher has cutting-edge investigative and killing skills that come in handy the moment he learns of his brother's murder. Indeed, when he's arrested in a local diner for being a conspicuously mysterious stranger, Reacher tells the detective who interviews him that he dropped off the bus to investigate the death of Blind Blake, a guitar player murdered in Margrave 60 years ago. Reacher doesn't know about his brother's death or suspect his presence in the town. Treasury official, just happens to have been murdered a few hours earlier.
Out of sheer restlessness and rootlessness, 36-year-old ex-military policeman Jack Reacher persuades a Greyhound bus driver to make an unscheduled stop in Margrave, the small Georgia town where Reacher's brother, a U.S.
Jack Reacher, the first Jack Reacher movie starring Tom Cruise, was based on the novel One Shot, and the second is Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.Although the tale is built around a coincidence as big as the author's talent, beautifully detailed action scenes and fascinating arcana about currency and counterfeiting enliven this taut and tough-minded first novel by British TV writer Child.
He is the recipient of many prizes, most recently the CWA's Diamond Dagger for a writer of an outstanding body of crime fiction. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world, and are published in over one hundred territories. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. Biography: Lee Child is one of the world's leading thriller writers.Imprint: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group).It presents Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs, the perfect action hero.Īnd be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.26, Better off Dead! ***OUT NOW*** They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.Īlthough the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular series. The moment where Reacher stares down the guy in the very beginning doesn’t happen in the book, either, but it also helped show us a part of Reacher’s personality early. It is a well researched story of counterfeiting the United States currency. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure. The zip-tie joke doesn’t happen in the book, but it’s a funny way of showcasing both his strength and his restraint, and I’m glad they included it. The Killing Floor is Jack Reachers first adventure. Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years.The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret.
Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. "This was the first Jack Reacher novel and with its lean, spare prose it has one of the most intriguing heroes of our times and displays a gift for explosive drama." (Daily Express)
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