A Wanted Man

Zusatztext “The indomitable Reacher burns up the pages.”— USA Today   “Furious action . . . [Lee] Child keeps the pacing swift and the surprises rolling. . . . [A] feverishly thrilling series.” —The Miami Herald   “Smart! breathless . . . [with] one of the best female characters in the whole Reacher series.”— The New York Times   “Subtle and nuanced [with] seductive writing and irresistible plot twists.” —Newsweek Informationen zum Autor Lee Child  is the author of nineteen  New York Times  bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers! ten of which have reached the #1 position. All have been optioned for major motion pictures; the first!  Jack Reacher!  was based on  One Shot . Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in almost a hundred territories. A native of England and a former television director! Lee Child lives in New York City. Klappentext A masterpiece of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child Four people in a car! hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving! eyes on the road. Another man next to him! telling stories that don't add up. A woman in the back! silent and worried. And next to her! a huge man with a broken nose! hitching a ride east to Virginia. An hour behind them! a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others! but he never came out. He has been executed! the knife work professional! the killers vanished. Within minutes! the police are notified. Within hours! the FBI descends! laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was there. All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat-to both sides at once. In Lee Child's white-hot thriller! nothing is what it seems! and nobody is telling the truth. As the tension rises! the twists come fast and furious! keeping readers guessing and gasping until the explosive finale. Praise for #1 bestselling author Lee Child and his Reacher series "Child is a superb craftsman of suspense."-Entertainment Weekly "The truth about Reacher gets better and better."-Janet Maslin! The New York Times "Implausible! irresistible Reacher remains just about the best butt-kicker in thriller-lit."-Kirkus Reviews "Like his hero Jack Reacher! Lee Child seems to make no wrong steps."-Associated Press "Lee Child [is] the current poster-boy of American crime fiction."-Los Angeles Times "Indisputably the best escape artist in this escapist genre."-Marilyn Stasio! The New York Times "Jack Reacher is much more like the heir to the Op and Marlowe than Spenser ever was."-Esquire Chapter 1 The eyewitness said he didn’t actually see it happen. But how else could it have gone down? Not long after midnight a man in a green winter coat had gone into a small concrete bunker through its only door. Two men in black suits had followed him in. There had been a short pause. The two men in the black suits had come out again. The man in the green winter coat had not come out again. The two men in the black suits had walked thirty brisk feet and climbed into a bright red car. Fire-engine red, the eyewitness called it. Vivid red. Fairly new. A regular four-door sedan, the eyewitness thought. Or maybe a five-door. Or a three-door. But definitely not a two-door coupe. A Toyota, the eyewitness thought. Or maybe a Honda. Or a Hyundai. Maybe a Kia. But whichever, the two men in the black suits had driven away in it. There was still no sign of the man in the green winter coat. Then blood had pooled out from under the concrete bunker’s door. The eyewitness had called 911. The county sh...

Product details

• Authors: Lee Child
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.09.2012
• EAN: 9780385344333
• ISBN: 978-0-385-34433-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Jack Reacher; Jack Reacher
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage