#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Lee Child returns with a gripping new powerhouse thriller featuring Jack Reacher, “one of this century’s most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes” (The Washington Post).BONUS: Includes a sneak peek of Lee Child’s new novel, Past Tense. Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005. A tough … 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?
So begins a harrowing journey that takes Reacher through the upper Midwest, from a lowlife bar on the sad side of small town to a dirt-blown crossroads in the middle of nowhere, encountering bikers, cops, crooks, muscle, and a missing persons PI who wears a suit and a tie in the Wyoming wilderness.
The deeper Reacher digs, and the more he learns, the more dangerous the terrain becomes. Turns out the ring was just a small link in a far darker chain. Powerful forces are guarding a vast criminal enterprise. Some lines should never be crossed. But then, neither should Reacher.
Praise for The Midnight Line
“Puts Reacher just where we want him.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A gem.”—Chicago Tribune
“A timely, suspenseful, morally complex thriller, one of the best I’ve read this year . . . Child weaves in a passionately told history of opioids in American life. . . . Child’s outrage over it is only just barely contained.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
“A perfect example of Lee Child’s talent . . . Lee Child is the master of plotting. . . . This is Child’s most emotional book to date. . . . This is not just a good story; it is a story with a purpose and a message.”—Huffington Post
“I just read the new Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. . . . It is as good as they always are. I read every single one.”—Malcolm Gladwell
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Like Jack R. Always a plan and many debtors . Hard to put down
always a pleasure to read his. books.
A very well-plotted story that kept surprising me until the end.
I enjoyed this book. The characters are believable and the story line was easy to follow. The deductions were well within the limits of the story, you can actually understand how ideas get pieced (except the cop).
Will probably read it again in the future.
It’s a Reacher novel-what’s not to like?
I love the Jack Reacher stories. Lee Child has joined the list of authors whom I will always read when I see a new offering. The Reacher stories are fast-moving, with complex plots and believable situations. The only flaw I can identify is that Jack and the good guys are always better, much better, than the bad guys. While I love his moxie, I don’t think that Jack has ever worked up a sweat in the situations he encounters; it is always the “tough guys” who come off second best. This makes for a rather linear story, which I enjoy but which does not reach down to my toes.
Weaving another tale of Jack Reacher’s fearless interactions with the bad guys, Lee Child leaves enough clues to allow the reader to figure out the plot early on.
Not exactly your typical Jack Reacher, but you will like it.
It’s been a long time since I picked up a Reacher book and I was pretty happy I did. There were a few messages in this book that I felt were well crafted and sincere. If you want to know what they are, read it for yourself. It’s a fast read like all the stories in this series. Enjoy.
I love Lee Child books.
Loved it! Typical Lee Child with great characters!
One of Lee Child’s better books in this series
Lee Child is a fantastic writer. His stories are well written and his characters powerful and interesting. I’ve been reading the Reacher series for years and each fall I look forward to the release of another of his stories.
Once more Jack Reacher can find trouble in whatever place he stops. This time it’s a pawn shop where he finds a West Point ring. He then sets out to find the owner of the ring because, well, he’s Jack Reacher.
Jack Reacher graduated West Point, fictionally, the year after me. He was also in Lebanon during the Marine Corps barracks, fictionally, while my unit, 10th Special Forces was running an MTT in the hills.
I lost my West Point ring years ago when I fedexed it to be repaired. My stone was hematite and it had cracked somehow, which is weird, because I never really wore it. I never replaced it, but its out there somewhere, so perhaps Jack Reacher will show up with it. One can only hope.
A solid read as all Lee Child’s books are.
Always entertaining, hard to put down
Typical “Child”, a great read and a great “Reacher” escapade. In this story Child has finally tempered his annoying ……”okay……” after almost every declarative sentence. The story was “CHILD-REACHER” who could find fault.
As with all of the Lee Child / Jack Reacher books, this is a “can’t put this book down” kind of book. The anti-hero Reacher is compelling in the simplicity of thought that leads to solving the crime. He has a clarity of vision that is missing from the other characters; and his sincere belief in what is right-behavior makes his unusual style a wonderful read for anyone believing in the rights of the innocent.
Love Jack Reacher
Another great Jack Reacher…..
Set aside enough time, cause you are going to want to read this in one sitting.