The secret / Lee Child and Andrew Child.
By: Child, Lee.
Contributor(s): Child, Andrew.
Series: Jack Reacher series: Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 2024Description: 416 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780552177566 (pbk.) :; 0552177563 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Reacher, Jack, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Retired military personnel -- Fiction | Thriller | Thriller | Crime & mystery fiction | Thriller / suspense fictionGenre/Form: Suspense fiction.Summary: Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient wakes to find two strangers by his bed. They show him a list of names and ask a simple but impossible question. Minutes later he falls to his death from his twelfth-floor window - a fall which generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher, recently demoted from Major, is assigned as the Army's representative. If he gets a result, great. If not, he's a convenient fall guy. Reacher may be an exceptional military investigator, but office politics aren't what gets him up in the morning. As he races to identify a cold-blooded killer and uncover a secret that stretches back 23 years, he must navigate around his new partners. Will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way - or his way?| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | Moss Bank Library Thriller | Issued | 29/04/2024 | 38055400026842 | |||
| Adult book | Thatto Heath Library Thriller | Reserved | 38055400026843 | 1 |
Originally published: London: Bantam, 2023.
Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient wakes to find two strangers by his bed. They show him a list of names and ask a simple but impossible question. Minutes later he falls to his death from his twelfth-floor window - a fall which generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher, recently demoted from Major, is assigned as the Army's representative. If he gets a result, great. If not, he's a convenient fall guy. Reacher may be an exceptional military investigator, but office politics aren't what gets him up in the morning. As he races to identify a cold-blooded killer and uncover a secret that stretches back 23 years, he must navigate around his new partners. Will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way - or his way?