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 a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case. New Year’s Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall … Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina “hot-sheets” motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. But this situation can’t be controlled. Within hours the general’s wife is murdered hundreds of miles away. Then the dominoes really start to fall.
Two Special Forces soldiers—the toughest of the tough—are taken down, one at a time. Top military commanders are moved from place to place in a bizarre game of chess. And somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Jack Reacher—an ordinarily untouchable investigator for the 110th Special Unit—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. And he’s taking a young female lieutenant with him on a deadly hunt that leads them from the ragged edges of a rural army post to the winding streets of Paris to a confrontation with an enemy he didn’t know he had. With his French-born mother dying—and divulging to her son one last, stunning secret—Reacher is forced to question everything he once believed…about his family, his career, his loyalties—and himself. Because this soldier’s son is on his way into the darkness, where he finds a tangled drama of desperate desires and violent death—and a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Lee Child’s Make Me.
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One of the best in the Reacher series.
If you like Reacher books you will like this one. A very good perspective on how Reacher got to where he is.
Great reading
One of the Jack Reacher books that I had missed along the way and I couldn’t put it down. Of course being an stationed in Germany back in the day and working in DC made it all the more interesting. I highly recommend this book!
None of the categories offer can apply to this with me. I would however classify The Enemy by Lee Child as an fictitious
action adventure that will keep you enthralled with the events that Lee Childs “Jack Reacher” books never fail to deliver on. If you like action adventure books that satay true to the caricature he’s created in a believable scenario
Lee’s your man.
If you like Jack Reacher get it. Not quite as good as the other books but still a good book.
Is good and sweet
This one was not as fast pasted as usual
One of the all-time great characters created by a fine story-teller. Reacher!!!
“The Enemy” is the eighth of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels and details his final case as a Military Police Major, as well as the death of his Parisian mother. I found it to be better written than the first Reacher novel (“Killing Floor”) which I recently read, in terms of flow and continuity, and less reliant on choppy sentence structures to underpin Child’s drive to make it a fast-paced read. The terse sentences petered out after the first couple of chapters and the writing transitioned to a more comfortable, yet still solidly progressive pace with time to develop the relationship between Reacher and this novel’s love interest – his subordinate, wanna-be MP. After reading two Reacher novels and seeing two Reacher movies, I’d have to say the female characters are not particularly forceful or memorable. But I guess most readers are looking for the action and violence – and in this case, “The Enemy” may slightly disappoint. There are a couple of graphic episodes but overall, it’s very laid back compared to “Killing Floor”. The ‘twist’ in the main homicide case – in my opinion – was pretty obvious long before the reveal – but the story is set in the nineties so that may be a function of the changed, more colorful world in which we now live.
Lee Child does not dissappoint
This character, this author, never disappoint. Ever.
I love Lee Child! I I have read ALL of his Jack Reacher books and can’t wait for the next!
I have seen both Jack Reacher movies, and wasn’t disappointed! I recommend Child’s books to family, friends & strangers I meet at bookstores and the library!
Jack Reacher , the toughest good buy in fiction.
I love Reacher! My favorite series because of the storytelling that Child pulls off and the badass-ness that Teacher displays!
a World-Class author !
I have read all the Jack Reacher novels; literally only have to say the words “Jack Reacher” and the dog jumps up in my lap and settles in for a long comfortable nap. Jack Reacher is the guy we’d all like to be.
Loved it.