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Informationen zum Autor Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies. Lee is the recipient of many awards, most recently Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours. Klappentext Jack Reacher takes an aimless stroll past a pawn shop in a small Midwestern town. In the window he sees a West Point class ring from 2005. It's tiny. It's a woman cadet's graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up? Reacher's a West Pointer too! and he knows what she went through to get it. Reacher tracks the ring back to its owner! step by step! down a criminal trail leading west. Like Big Foot come out of the forest! he arrives in the deserted wilds of Wyoming. All he wants is to find the woman. If she's OK! he'll walk away. If she's not ... he'll stop at nothing. He's still shaken by the recent horrors of Make Me! and now The Midnight Line sees him set on a raw and elemental quest for simple justice. Best advice: don't get in his way. Zusammenfassung Jack Reacher takes an aimless stroll past a pawn shop in a small Midwestern town. In the window he sees a West Point class ring from 2005. It’s tiny. It’s a woman cadet’s graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up? Reacher’s a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it. Reacher tracks the ring back to its owner, step by step, down a criminal trail leading west. Like Big Foot come out of the forest, he arrives in the deserted wilds of Wyoming. All he wants is to find the woman. If she’s OK, he’ll walk away. If she’s not … he’ll stop at nothing. He’s still shaken by the recent horrors of Make Me , and now The Midnight Line sees him set on a raw and elemental quest for simple justice. Best advice: don’t get in his way. ...
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Marks a real departure for Lee Child, who homes in on two hot issues (US military veterans with mental or physical scars, and a related social plague currently in the news) ...Alongside this topicality is a poignancy that was lacking in earlier books. John Dugdale Sunday Times Thriller of the Year
