Morgan, says Reacher is under investigation in two cases: a suspected homicide dating back nearly sixteen years, and a lawsuit filed by Candice Dayton, a woman who alleges that she and Reacher had an affair when he was stationed in South Korea and that he is the father of her fourteen-year-old daughter, Samantha. Killing Floor was an immediate success and launched the series which has grown in sales and impact with every new installment.

It aimed for the motel office, but its headlight beams swung across Reacher’s immobile form, and it changed direction, and came straight at him.

Turner says the mission in Afghanistan was linked to a Pashtun elder, later identified as Emal Zadran, and theorizes that Morgan, the strange men, and some higher-ups in the army's chain of command (who are using the pseudonyms Romeo and Juliet) are working together to protect him. He has a talent for taking material that in the hands of other authors would be stale and making it seem fresh. Ezra Shrago, one of the smugglers, to be arrested, and locates Scully and Montague at Dove Cottage in Georgetown, a private club owned by Scully and Monatague, where both men choose to commit suicide rather than be arrested.

He should have read Reachers file in a bit more detail and he would have known, like us, that Reacher was never one to really pay much heed to those regulations the first time round and so we knew he wasn't going to pay much attention to them on this little merry go round. Once you've fallen in love with Reacher, rejoice in the fact that there are 17 more novels to get absorbed and lost in. During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. However, after 17 of these books, I was hoping for a bit of evolvement in Reacher's character or life position.But, I don't know how he does it, Child somehow manages to turn this psychopathic monster into someone we all love and root for. He has had occasion to talk to the new commander of his old outfit (the 110th Military Police) and he liked her voice. After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. He rapidly deduces the murder charge and Susan's bribery charge are frame ups designed to keep them both out of the way while a major military scam goes down.

Through Edmonds, Reacher and Turner learn that an illicit operation was being run through Fort Bragg army base in North Carolina under the control of Crew Scully and Gabriel Montague, both Deputy Chiefs of Staff, involving the smuggling of contraband using empty ordnance crates. But what he didn’t expect was to find himself, unwillingly, back in the army and to find that Major Turner is under close arrest.

Child whets us with small glimpses of their faceless enemy, high in Homeland Security, tracking their moves under code names of Romeo and Juliet. By signing up I consent to you using my details to send me Jack Reacher newsletters from the UK and confirm that I have read Penguin Random House’s Privacy Policy.

Stan Reacher, born in Laconia, New Hampshire, a Marine captain serving in Japan, with a wife and two teenage sons. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age. His destination, the closest thing to a home he ever had: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th Military Police. It wouldn't be fair to say any more; needless to say the story proceeds as long-time Reacher fans will expect.to the old office he remembers so well, the new commander (Major Susan Turner) has been relieved of command, locked away in a cell and there are charges pending against Jack (Reacher). His hero, Jack Reacher is, let us face it, a thoroughly disagreeable chap who seems to think it is perfectly all right to wander around committing very serious assaults on anyone he takes against. There’s also a major question mark over something from his past and I think Lee Child missed a trick by not exploring this further because it could have spun a whole new series. I try to anticipate the ending in as much detail as practical, but Never Go Back was a challenge in this regard. Here Jack is post military (some books take place while he's still an MP Major [or captain whatever] some after he's.