Bøger af Lee Child

The trade paperback tie-in edition of the first novel in Lee Child's #1 bestselling Jack Reacher series-the inspiration for the new Prime Video series Reacher.Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He's just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he's arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn't kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn't stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.Story Locale: Rural GeorgiaSeries Overview: Jack Reacher was a military policeman. Now he's part drifter and part knight errant-mostly he's a force of nature.

Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South Dakota to his destination in northeastern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. The old stone building is the closest thing to a home he ever had.

Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, another telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And a hitchhiker with a broken nose. An hour behind them, the FBI descends on an old pumping station where a man was stabbed to death—the knife work professional, the killers nowhere to be seen.

There are people in this hostile, empty place who would rather die, than reveal their secrets. But then, if Reacher is coming after you, you might be better off dead. (c) Lee Child, Andrew Child 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incomparable hero of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back takes readers to school in his most explosive novel yet. After eleven straight global #1 bestsellers, discover the thrillers that The New York Times calls "utterly addictive."Don't miss a sneak peek of Lee Child's new novel, The Midnight Line, in the back of the book. It's 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he's off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind. Two other men are in the classroom-an FBI agent and a CIA analyst. Each is a first-rate operator, each is fresh off a big win, and each is wondering what the hell they are doing there. Then they find out: A Jihadist sleeper cell in Hamburg, Germany, has received an unexpected visitor-a Saudi courier, seeking safe haven while waiting to rendezvous with persons unknown. A CIA asset, undercover inside the cell, has overheard the courier whisper a chilling message: "The American wants a hundred million dollars." For what? And who from? Reacher and his two new friends are told to find the American. Reacher recruits the best soldier he has ever worked with: Sergeant Frances Neagley. Their mission heats up in more ways than one, while always keeping their eyes on the prize: If they don't get their man, the world will suffer an epic act of terrorism. From Langley to Hamburg, Jalalabad to Kiev, Night School moves like a bullet through a treacherous landscape of double crosses, faked identities, and new and terrible enemies, as Reacher maneuvers inside the game and outside the law.Praise for Night School"The prose is crisp and clean, and the fighting is realistic. . . . This latest installment has all the classic ingredients: a great setting (Hamburg), a good villain, and a mystery that draws you in efficiently, escalates unpredictably, and has a satisfying resolution."-The New Yorker "Another timely tour de force . . . The taut thriller is textbook [Lee] Child: fast-paced and topical with a 'ripped from the headlines' feel."-Minneapolis Star-Tribune "As gripping as ever."-The Florida Times-Union Praise for #1 bestselling author Lee Child and his Jack Reacher series "Reacher [is] one of this century's most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes."-The Washington Post

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Lee Child returns with a gripping new powerhouse thriller featuring Jack Reacher, "one of this century's most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes" (The Washington Post). Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005. A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan. The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside. Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years. He decides to find out. And find the woman. And return her ring. Why not? So begins a harrowing journey that takes Reacher through the upper Midwest, from a lowlife bar on the sad side of small town to a dirt-blown crossroads in the middle of nowhere, encountering bikers, cops, crooks, muscle, and a missing persons PI who wears a suit and a tie in the Wyoming wilderness. The deeper Reacher digs, and the more he learns, the more dangerous the terrain becomes. Turns out the ring was just a small link in a far darker chain. Powerful forces are guarding a vast criminal enterprise. Some lines should never be crossed. But then, neither should Reacher.Praise for The Midnight Line "Puts Reacher just where we want him."-The New York Times Book Review"A gem."-Chicago Tribune "A timely, suspenseful, morally complex thriller, one of the best I've read this year . . . Child weaves in a passionately told history of opioids in American life. . . . Child's outrage over it is only just barely contained."-The Philadelphia Inquirer "A perfect example of Lee Child's talent . . . Lee Child is the master of plotting. . . . This is Child's most emotional book to date. . . . This is not just a good story; it is a story with a purpose and a message."-Huffington Post "I just read the new Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. . . . It is as good as they always are. I read every single one."-Malcolm Gladwell

Reacher har som sædvanlig ubegrænset tid og ingen særlige steder at skulle hen. En morgen havner han i en by i nærheden af Pleasantville, Tennessee.Der er bare intet behageligt ved stedet.Ved højlys dag ser Reacher en intetanende mand på vej ind i et baghold. De er fire mod en, så Racher griber ind med sin karakteristiske måde at løse konflikter på.Manden, han har reddet, er den stilfærdige it-chef Rusty Rutherford, der for nylig er blevet fyret i forbindelse med, at et cyberangreb har blokeret byens netværk, registre, oplysninger ... og hemmeligheder. Rutherford er kun interesseret i at holde lav profil, fremstå uskyldig og få renset sit navn.Reacher tænker sit. Der er mere i historien end som så. Rutherfords overfaldsmænd er del af noget alvorligt og livsfarligt, som omfatter både en konspiration, en afledningsmanøvre og mord – og det hele kredser om en undselig lille fyr med kaffepletter på trøjen og ingen anelse om, hvad han er oppe mod.Regel nummer et: Ved man ikke, hvad man er kommet ud i, er det om at have Reacher ved sin side.Jack Reacher er vore dages James Bond og som spændingshelt umulig at få for meget af. – Ken Follett „Lee Child skal læses.“ Sara Blædel Lee Child er en af verdens førende thriller-­ ­forfattere. Han er født i Coventry, vokset op i Birmingham og bor nu i New York. Det hævdes, at der hvert niende sekund bliver solgt en af hans romaner om Jack Reacher et sted i verden. Hans bøger ligger jævnligt på toppen af alverdens bestsellerlister og er solgt i over hundrede millioner eksemplarer. Der er foreløbig blevet produceret to store Hollywood­film om Jack Reacher. Child har modtaget mange hædersbevisninger, senest som Author of the Year ved British Book Awards 2019. Ligeledes i 2019 udnævnte dronning Elizabeth II ham til Commander of the British Empire.

WHAT MAKES A HERO? WHO BETTER TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION THAN LEE CHILD... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read it?' Karin Slaughter 'I don't know another author so skilled at making me turn the page' The Times

Jack Reacher gets off a bus in Nashville, Tennessee, in a quest for food, lodging and some good country music. But when he encounters a band of musicians who have been cheated by an unscrupulous bar owner, he steps in to help...

24. bog i serien om actionhelten Jack Reacher. I en navnløs storby kæmper to skånselsløse gangster­bander om magten, en albansk og en ukrainsk. De havde bare ikke forventet at se Jack Reacher dukke op i området.Reacher er vant til at observere. Han befinder sig i en Greyhoundbus, hvor han ser en gammel mand sidde og sove med en kuvert fuld af penge stikkende op af lommen. Det har en anden passager også bemærket ... og har tydeligvis tænkt sig at blive rig i en fart.Da røveren går i aktion, griber Reacher ind. Den gamle mand er taknemlig, men afviser alligevel Reachers tilbud om at følge ham hjem. Han er skrøbelig, bange og tydeligvis i meget store vanskeligheder.Hvilken klemme kan banderne dog have på den gamle mand? Vil Reacher bare holde afstand og lade tingene udvikle sig til det værre? Eller vil han kunne vende situationen til alles fordel?”Universet består af tilfældigheder,” sagde Reacher. ”En sjælden gang udvikler tingene sig uden varsel bare helt rigtigt.”Sandsynligheden for det er større med Reacher i nærheden. Det er i hvert fald helt sikkert.Child er på toppen i denne neglebider.Publishers WeeklySom figur er Reacher uimodståelig i en grad, hvor han henter sig fans alle mulige steder.BooklistLee Child er en af verdens førende thrillerforfattere. Han er født i Coventry, vokset op i Birmingham og bor nu i New York. Det hævdes, at der hvert niende sekund bliver solgt en af hans romaner om Jack Reacher et sted i verden. Hans bøger ligger jævnligt på toppen af alverdens bestsellerlister og er solgt i over hundrede millioner eksemplarer. Der er foreløbig blevet produceret to store Hollywood-film om Jack Reacher. Han har modtaget mange hædersbevisninger, senest som Author of the Year ved British Book Awards 2019. Ligeledes i 2019 udnævnte dronning Elizabeth II ham til Commander of the British Empire.

24. bog i serien om actionhelten Jack Reacher. I en navnløs storby kæmper to skånselsløse gangster­bander om magten, en albansk og en ukrainsk. De havde bare ikke forventet at se Jack Reacher dukke op i området.Reacher er vant til at observere. Han befinder sig i en Greyhoundbus, hvor han ser en gammel mand sidde og sove med en kuvert fuld af penge stikkende op af lommen. Det har en anden passager også bemærket ... og har tydeligvis tænkt sig at blive rig i en fart.Da røveren går i aktion, griber Reacher ind. Den gamle mand er taknemlig, men afviser alligevel Reachers tilbud om at følge ham hjem. Han er skrøbelig, bange og tydeligvis i meget store vanskeligheder.Hvilken klemme kan banderne dog have på den gamle mand? Vil Reacher bare holde afstand og lade tingene udvikle sig til det værre? Eller vil han kunne vende situationen til alles fordel?”Universet består af tilfældigheder,” sagde Reacher. ”En sjælden gang udvikler tingene sig uden varsel bare helt rigtigt.”Sandsynligheden for det er større med Reacher i nærheden. Det er i hvert fald helt sikkert. ”'Uden varsel' kommer ind på nogle vigtige og meget relevante emner, blandt andet det amerikanske sundshedsvæsen og forsikringer, bander, lyssky lån og beskyttelsespenge… hvilket helt sikkert var med til at fænge mig.” - Bech’s books ”Jeg nyder Reacher bøgerne, de er godt skrevet, og så er de faktisk spændende.” - god-bog.dk"Child er på toppen i denne neglebider."- Publishers Weekly"Som figur er Reacher uimodståelig i en grad, hvor han henter sig fans alle mulige steder."- BooklistLee Child er en af verdens førende thrillerforfattere. Han er født i Coventry, vokset op i Birmingham og bor nu i New York. Det hævdes, at der hvert niende sekund bliver solgt en af hans romaner om Jack Reacher et sted i verden. Hans bøger ligger jævnligt på toppen af alverdens bestsellerlister og er solgt i over hundrede millioner eksemplarer. Der er foreløbig blevet produceret to store Hollywood-film om Jack Reacher. Han har modtaget mange hædersbevisninger, senest som Author of the Year ved British Book Awards 2019. Ligeledes i 2019 udnævnte dronning Elizabeth II ham til Commander of the British Empire.

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 thrillera 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 goneand it's not just past secrets they're trying to hide. They're awaiting a secret shipment that's already lateand 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 survivea heart-racing page-turner no suspense fan will want to miss.

'This is one of his best' - The TimesJack Reacher is back in a brand new white-knuckle read from Lee Child. It's a random universe, but once in a blue moon things turn out just right. In a nameless city, two rival criminal gangs are competing for control.

23. bog i serien om actionhelten Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher stiller sig ud på kørebanen og stikker tommelfingeren frem. Hans plan er at følge efter solen på en storslået rejse gennem USA fra Maine til Californien. Han når bare ikke ret langt. På en landevej dybt inde i New Englands skove ser han et vejskilt pege i retning af et sted, han aldrig har været: sin fars fødeby. Hvad betyder en dag fra eller til? Tænker han og vælger at tage en omvej.Et andet sted i det øde område bryder en bil sammen. To unge canadiere var på vej til New York City for at sælge en skat. Nu er de strandet på et ensomt beliggende motel langt fra alfarvej. Ejerne virker nærmest overvenlige. Stedet er mærkeligt, men der er ikke andre muligheder.Næste morgen forhører Reacher sig på det lokale arkiv om sin families gamle hjem. Han får at vide, at der aldrig har boet nogen ved navn Reacher i byen. Han har altid været klar over, at hans far var rejst derfra uden nogensinde at vende tilbage, men nu begynder Reacher for alvor at undre sig: Har han overhovedet været der?Mens Reacher forsøger at komme til bunds i sin fars liv, og canadierne viser sig at være i livsfare, begynder flere forskellige historier at løbe sammen. Det fører Reacher frem til en chokerende opdagelse: Nutiden kan være barsk nok, men fortiden er heller ikke nødvendigvis særlig langt væk – og kan være dødbringende. "En af de mest fascinerende og originale helte i dette århundredes populærkultur."– Washington Post "Romanen er spændende og hvert kapitel bliver afsluttet med en cliffhanger, så den er svær at lægge fra sig ... Lever fuldt op til de tidligere spændingsromaner af Child." – Dansk BiblioteksCenter "Får Reacher lige derhen, hvor vi gerne vil have ham." – New York Times Book Review "En dagsaktuel, spændende og moralsk flertydig thriller, en af de bedste jeg har læst i år ... Child får også indflettet en lidenskabeligt fortalt historie om opiater i den amerikanske hverdag ... Childs vrede over det lader sig kun lige akkurat kontrollere." – Philadelphia Inquirer "Et perfekt eksempel på Lee Childs evner ... Lee Child er mesterlig til at konstruere plots ... Det er Childs mest følelsesladede bog til dato ... Det er ikke blot en god historie; det er en historie med et formål og et budskab." – Huffington Post

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jack Reacher comes to the aid of an elderly couple . . . and confronts his most dangerous opponents yet. "Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of."-Ken Follett"This is a random universe," Reacher says. "Once in a blue moon things turn out just right." This isn't one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you know what they say about good deeds. Now Reacher wants to make it right. An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a brutal turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs. Reacher has to stay one step ahead of the loan sharks, the thugs, and the assassins. He teams up with a fed-up waitress who knows a little more than she's letting on, and sets out to take down the powerful and make the greedy pay. It's a long shot. The odds are against him. But Reacher believes in a certain kind of justice . . . the kind that comes along once in a blue moon. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY EVENING STANDARD

Jack Reacher finds himself in bad company in the second novel in Lee Child'sNew York Timesbestselling series.Jack Reacher is an innocent bystander when he witnesses a woman kidnapped off a Chicago street in broad daylight. In the wrong place at the wrong time, he's kidnapped with her. Chained together, locked in the back of a stifling van, and racing across America to an unknown destination for an unknown purpose, they're at the mercy of a group of men demanding an impossible ransom. Because this mysterious woman is worth more than Reacher ever suspected. Now he has to save them bothfrom the inside outor die trying...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ';High-powered, intricately wrought suspense.'Janet Maslin, The New York Times ';Hold on tight. . . . This novel will give you whiplash as you rabidly turn pages. . . . May be [Lee Child's] best.'USA Today New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are okay. The fifth isn't. And if you think Reacher isn't going to get involved . . . then you don't know Jack. Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, and Afghanistanby dozens of people with one thing in common: They're all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or just enough to get him killed. A race has begun through the streets of Manhattan, a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. For Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, the finish line comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye. ';Propulsive . . . [Child is] an expert at ratcheting up tension.'Los Angeles Times ';A top-notch thriller.'Booklist (starred review) ';Edgy . . . thoroughly engrossing.'The Miami Herald

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREverything 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 cover-up. 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 and then to vanish. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, Reacher meets local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux, who has a thirst for justice and an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust each other, they reluctantly join forces. Finding unexpected layers to the case, Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his missionand turn him into a man to be feared.Don't miss Lee Child's short story ';Not a Drill' in the back of the book.

Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier's son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army's brightest stars. But in every cop's life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case. New Year's Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina ';hot-sheets' motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. But this situation can't be controlled. Within hours the general's wife is murdered hundreds of miles away. Then the dominoes really start to fall. Two Special Forces soldiersthe toughest of the toughare taken down, one at a time. Top military commanders are moved from place to place in a bizarre game of chess. And somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Jack Reacheran ordinarily untouchable investigator for the 110th Special Unitis being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have. But Reacher won't quit. He's fighting a new kind of war. And he's taking a young female lieutenant with him on a deadly hunt that leads them from the ragged edges of a rural army post to the winding streets of Paris to a confrontation with an enemy he didn't know he had. With his French-born mother dyingand divulging to her son one last, stunning secretReacher is forced to question everything he once believedabout his family, his career, his loyaltiesand himself. Because this soldier's son is on his way into the darkness, where he finds a tangled drama of desperate desires and violent deathand a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Lee Child'sMake Me.

';Gripping and suspenseful . . . Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights.'The Denver Post Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. And with a burning desire to right wrongsand rewrite his own agonizing past. DEA Susan Duffy is living for the future, knowing that she has made a terrible mistake by putting one of her own female agents into a death trap within a heavily guarded Maine mansion. Staging a brilliant ruse, Reacher hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise. Trying to rescue an agent whose time is running out, Reacher enters a crime lord's waterfront fortress. There he will find a world of secrecy and violenceand confront some unfinished business from his own past. Praise for Persuader ';A page-turner . . . [Lee] Child's tale drives hard and fast.'Los Angeles Times Book Review ';Wickedly addictive . . . so fast-paced it makes the eyeballs spin.'Orlando Sentinel ';A story that will sweep you along as fast as some of the riptides Reacher survives.'St. Petersburg Times

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *; Lee Child returns with a gripping new powerhouse thriller featuring Jack Reacher, ';one of this century's most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes' (The Washington Post).BONUS: Includes a sneak peek of Lee Child's new novel, Past Tense. Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005.A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan.The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside.Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years. He decides to find out. And find the woman. And return her ring. Why not? So begins a harrowing journey that takes Reacher through the upper Midwest, from a lowlife bar on the sad side of small town to a dirt-blown crossroads in the middle of nowhere, encountering bikers, cops, crooks, muscle, and a missing persons PI who wears a suit and a tie in the Wyoming wilderness. The deeper Reacher digs, and the more he learns, the more dangerous the terrain becomes. Turns out the ring was just a small link in a far darker chain. Powerful forces are guarding a vast criminal enterprise. Some lines should never be crossed. But then, neither should Reacher.Praise for The Midnight Line';Puts Reacher just where we want him.'The New York Times Book Review';A gem.'Chicago Tribune';A timely, suspenseful, morally complex thriller, one of the best I've read this year . . . Child weaves in a passionately told history of opioids in American life. . . . Child's outrage over it is only just barely contained.'The Philadelphia Inquirer ';A perfect example of Lee Child's talent . . . Lee Child is the master of plotting. . . . This is Child's most emotional book to date. . . . This is not just a good story; it is a story with a purpose and a message.'Huffington Post ';I just read the new Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. . . . It is as good as they always are. I read every single one.'Malcolm Gladwell

Lee Child (Author) 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. Two blockbusting Jack Reacher movies have been made so far. He 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.