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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 From number one bestseller Lee Child! the thrilling new blockbuster featuring hero Jack Reacher. Reacher! the eternal drifter! happens by chance on the small New Hampshire town he remembers his father was supposed to have come from. But when he starts looking for his dad's old home! he finds there's no record of anyone named Reacher ever having lived there. Zusammenfassung The most hotly anticipated thriller of 2018 follows our hero Jack Reacher on a quest into his father's past! and climaxes in the most stomach-clenching! hair-raising!blood-curling ticking-time- bomb of an adventure yet. Jack Reacher plans to follow the autumn sun on an epic road trip across America! from Maine to California. He doesn't get far. On a country road deep in the New England woods! he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. He thinks! what's one extra day? He takes the detour. At the very same moment! close by! a car breaks down. Two young Canadians are trying to get to New York City to sell a treasure. They're stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. It's a strange place ? but it's all there is. The next morning in the city clerk's office! Reacher asks about the old family home. He's told no one named Reacher ever lived in that town. He knows his father never went back. Now he wonders! was he ever there in the first place? So begins another nailbiting! adrenaline-fuelled adventure for Reacher. The present can be tense! but the past can be worse. That's for damn sure. ...
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"Absolutely loved Past Tense - Lee Child just gets better and better, which is a very rare quality in a writer of a long-run series. Whip smart, always compelling, always fun, he is dangerously addictive." Peter James
