Worth Dying for

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 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 Informationen zum Autor Lee Child Klappentext NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Jack Reacher is the coolest continuing series character now on offer."-Stephen King, in Entertainment Weekly #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child follows the electrifying 61 Hours with his latest Reacher thriller-a story that hits the ground running and then accelerates all the way to a colossal showdown. There's deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska . . . and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it's the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades-old, that Reacher can't let go. The Duncans want Reacher gone-and it's not just past secrets they're trying to hide. They're awaiting a secret shipment that's already late-and they have the kind of customers no one can afford to annoy. For as dangerous as the Duncans are, they're just the bottom of a criminal food chain stretching halfway around the world. For Reacher, it would have made much more sense to keep on going, to put some distance between himself and the hard-core trouble that's bearing down on him. For Reacher, that was also impossible. Worth Dying For is the kind of explosive thriller only Lee Child could write and only Jack Reacher could survive-a heart-racing page-turner no suspense fan will want to miss. CHAPTER NINE Reacher checked the window. There were four tires in total, big knobbly off-road things, all of them on a Ford pick-up truck. The truck had a jacked suspension and lights on a roof bar and a snorkel air intake and a winch on the front. There were two large shapes in the gloom inside. The shapes had thick necks and huge shoulders. The truck nosed slowly down the row of cabins and stopped twenty feet behind the parked Subaru. The headlights stayed on. The engine idled. The doors opened. Two guys climbed out. They both looked like Brett, only bigger. Late twenties, easily six-six or six-seven, probably close to three hundred pounds each, big waists made tiny by huge chests and arms and shoulders. They had cropped hair and small eyes and fleshy faces. They were the kind of guys who ate two dinners and were still hungry afterward. They were wearing red Cornhuskers football jackets made gray by the blue light from the cabin’s eaves. The doctor’s wife joined Reacher at the window. "Sweet Jesus," she said. Reacher said nothing. The two guys closed the truck’s doors and stepped back in unison to the load bed and unlatched a tool locker bolted across its width behind the cab. They lifted the lid and one took out an engineer’s ball-peen hammer and the other took out a two-headed wrench at least a foot and a half long. They left the lid open and walked forward into the truck’s headlight wash and their shadows jumped ahead of them. They were light on their feet and nimble for their size, like football players usually were. They paused for a moment and looked at the cabin’s door, and then they turned away. Toward the Subaru. <...

Product details

• Authors: Lee Child
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.08.2012
• EAN: 9780345541604
• ISBN: 978-0-345-54160-4
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 208 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Jack Reacher; Jack Reacher; Jack Reacher (englisch); Random House Publishing Group
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense