The Affair - A Jack Reacher Novel

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 Klappentext With Reacher, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child has created "a series that stands in the front rank of modern thrillers" (The Washington Post). Everything starts somewhere. . . . For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Reacher is ordered undercover-to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish. Reacher is a good soldier. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, he finds layers no one saw coming, and the investigation spins out of control. Local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux has a thirst for justice-and an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust one another, Reacher and Deveraux reluctantly join forces. Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission, and turn him into a man to be feared. A novel of unrelenting suspense that could only come from the pen of #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, The Affair is the start of the Reacher saga, a thriller that takes Reacher-and his readers-right to the edge . . . and beyond.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 Def...

Product details

• Authors: Lee Child
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.09.2011
• EAN: 9780739378489
• ISBN: 978-0-7393-7848-9
• No. of pages: 592
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Reacher Novel; Jack Reacher (englisch)
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense