Product Details:
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN-10: 0425206246
ISBN-13: 9780425206249
Sku: 31193485
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 8.25H x 5.25L x 1T
Pages:
420
Age Range:
22 to UP
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| Loner Jack Reacher returns, thumbing his way through the west Texas desert. He's picked up by Carmen Greer, a troubled beauty with a story to tell and a plan Reacher soon becomes a part of. |
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From the Publisher:
While hitchhiking through West Texas, former MP Jack Reacher encounters a young woman seeking protection for herself and her little girl from her monstrous husband, due to be released from jail, and his horrible family, but Reacher soon finds himself over his head among the simmering secrets of Echo, Texas. Reprint.While hitchhiking through West Texas, former MP Jack Reacher encounters a young woman seeking protection for herself and her little girl from her monstrous husband, due to be released from jail, and his horrible family, but Reacher soon finds himself over his head among the simmering secrets of Echo, Texas. Reprint. |
Annotation:
Jack Reacher, taciturn hero extraordinaire, stumbles into more trouble when he hitches a ride in Texas with a beautiful woman. Her name is Carmine Greer, and she wants Jack to kill her rich, evil, abusive husband, Sloop. When Jack refuses to do the job, Carmine does it herself--or so she says. Sloop's definitely dead, but Jack has a hunch that that Carmine's lying about her guilt. But why? Between barroom brawls and other misadventures, Jack and a lawyer named Alice Aarons struggle to get to the truth.Jack Reacher, taciturn hero extraordinaire, stumbles into more trouble when he hitches a ride in Texas with a beautiful woman. Her name is Carmine Greer, and she wants Jack to kill her rich, evil, abusive husband, Sloop. When Jack refuses to do the job, Carmine does it herself--or so she says. Sloop's definitely dead, but Jack has a hunch that that Carmine's lying about her guilt. But why? Between barroom brawls and other misadventures, Jack and a lawyer named Alice Aarons struggle to get to the truth.
Jack Reacher, taciturn hero extraordinaire, stumbles into more trouble when he hitches a ride in Texas with a beautiful woman. Her name is Carmine Greer, and she wants Jack to kill her rich, evil, abusive husband, Sloop. When Jack refuses to do the job, Carmine does it herself--or so she says. Sloop's definitely dead, but Jack has a hunch that that Carmine's lying about her guilt. But why? Between barroom brawls and other misadventures, Jack and a lawyer named Alice Aarons struggle to get to the truth.Jack Reacher, taciturn hero extraordinaire, stumbles into more trouble when he hitches a ride in Texas with a beautiful woman. Her name is Carmine Greer, and she wants Jack to kill her rich, evil, abusive husband, Sloop. When Jack refuses to do the job, Carmine does it herself--or so she says. Sloop's definitely dead, but Jack has a hunch that that Carmine's lying about her guilt. But why? Between barroom brawls and other misadventures, Jack and a lawyer named Alice Aarons struggle to get to the truth.
Praise
New York Times Book Review
"[Child's] words are spare, but well chosen; the action is violent, but well calculated; and the ingenuity of the plot is especially well suited to a character like Reacher..." - Marilyn Stasio 07/22/2001 Baltimore Sun
"It's sordid and complicated. It's also a tightly constructed and colorful story." 06/03/2001 Baltimore Sun
"It's sordid and complicated. It's also a tightly constructed and colorful story." 06/03/2001 New York Times Book Review
"[Child's] words are spare, but well chosen; the action is violent, but well calculated; and the ingenuity of the plot is especially well suited to a character like Reacher..." - Marilyn Stasio 07/22/2001
"[Child's] words are spare, but well chosen; the action is violent, but well calculated; and the ingenuity of the plot is especially well suited to a character like Reacher..." - Marilyn Stasio 07/22/2001 Baltimore Sun
"It's sordid and complicated. It's also a tightly constructed and colorful story." 06/03/2001 Baltimore Sun
"It's sordid and complicated. It's also a tightly constructed and colorful story." 06/03/2001 New York Times Book Review
"[Child's] words are spare, but well chosen; the action is violent, but well calculated; and the ingenuity of the plot is especially well suited to a character like Reacher..." - Marilyn Stasio 07/22/2001

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