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Lee Child, Dick Hill, Dick Hill
The Affair - Audio CD - 5 abridged CDs - (Audio book) - A Reacher Novel
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Zusatztext 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 Review s “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 Informationen zum Autor LEE CHILD is the author of sixteen Jack Reacher thrillers! including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Worth Dying For ! 61 Hours ! Gone Tomorrow ! Nothing to Lose ! and Bad Luck and Trouble . His debut! Killing Floor ! won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery! and The Enemy won both the Barry and the Nero awards for Best Novel. Foreign rights in the Jack Reacher series have sold in more than fifty territories. All titles have been optioned for major motion pictures. Child! a native of England and a former television director! lives in New York City. Chapter 1 The Pentagon is the world's largest office building, six and a half million square feet, thirty thousand people, more than seventeen miles of corridors, but it was built with just three street doors, each one of them opening into a guarded pedestrian lobby. I chose the southeast option, the main concourse entrance, the one nearest the Metro and the bus station, because it was the busiest and the most popular with civilian workers, and I wanted plenty of civilian workers around, preferably a whole long unending stream of them, for insurance purposes, mostly against getting shot on sight. Arrests go bad all the time, sometimes accidentally, sometimes on purpose, so I wanted witnesses. I wanted independent eyeballs on me, at least at the beginning. I remember the date, of course. It was Tuesday, the eleventh of March, 1997, and it was the last day I walked into that place as a legal employee of the people who built it. A long time ago. The eleventh of March 1997 was also by chance exactly four and a half years before the world changed, on that other future Tuesday, and so like a lot of things in the old days the security at the main concourse entrance was serious without being hysterical. Not that I invited hysteria. Not from a distance. I was wearing my Class A uniform, all of it clean, pressed, polished, and spit-shined, all of it covered with thirteen years' worth of medal ribbons, badges, insignia, and citations. I was thirty-six years old, standing tall and walking ramrod straight, a totally squared away U.S. Army Military Police major in every respect, except that my hair was too long and I hadn't shaved for five days. Back then Pentagon security was run by the Defense Protective Service, and from forty yards I saw ten of their guys in the lobby, which I thought was far too many, which made me wonder whether they were all theirs or whether some of them were actually ours, working undercover, waiting for me. Most of our skilled work is done by Warrant Officers, and they do a lot of it by pretending to be someone else. They impersonate colonels and generals and enlisted men, and anyone else they need to, and they're good at it. All in a day's work for them to throw on DPS uniforms and wait for their target. From thirty yards I didn't recognize any of them, but then, the army is a very big institution, and they would have chosen men I had never met before. I walked on, part of a broad wash of people heading ...
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