Jack will do what it takes to save them both from this ordeal – or die trying Jack may have been at the wrong place at the wrong time, but they kidnapped the wrong guy. However, the bad luck turns out to belong to the kidnappers. The woman is worth a lot of money to someone and they just might get it. The men who kidnapped them are looking for an impossible ransom. The two are chained together and locked in the back of the van as it heads to an unknown destination. He’s in the wrong place at the wrong time which leads to him being kidnapped with her. Jack will work together with them on the case to bring the right killerĭie Trying: This book sees Jack Reacher heading to Chicago where he is witness to a woman being kidnapped off of the street. Reacher meets the detective, Finlay, and a female officer named Roscoe who believes that Reacher is innocent. What they don’t know is what Reacher is capable of. The sheriff claims that he saw Reacher leave the scene of a murder and arrests him for that crime. However, to his surprise he is arrested shortly after on the orders of the local sheriff. The book starts with Jack Reacher getting off of a Greyhound bus in the town of Margrave, Georgia for the simple reason that he heard that a blues musician that he liked had died in that town. Child was awarded with both the Anthony Award and Barry Award for Best First Novel. Killing Floor: This is the first book in the Jack Reacher series.
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While Lee Child himself has been called a master of his craft by publications such as Entertainment Weekly and the series has drawn quite a following. Reacher has been called one of “this century’s most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes” by the Washington Post. The books in the series follow Reacher as he goes through a number of exploits in his world. Jack Reacher is the lead character and the protagonist in the series of books by British author Jim Grant who writes under the pseudonym of Lee Child. The short story Second Son features Jack Reacher at 13 years old and High Heat has Reacher as 16. Chronologically, The Enemy should be read first followed by Night School and then The Affair.You can then read the rest of the novels in publication order.