De rekening (Jack Reacher Book 11)

by Lee Child

Tijdens een ontspannende wandeling ontmoet ex-militair Jack Reacher een aantrekkelijke jonge vrouw die slecht ter been is. Reacher helpt haar een handje, maar als ze zich omdraaien kijken ze recht in de loop van twee revolvers.

Drieduizend kilometer verder zitten ze vast in een geheim kamp in het uitgestrekte noorden van Montana. De vrouw zegt dat ze Holly Johnson heet en een FBI-agente is. Holly heeft lef en ze is sterk, maar de doorgewinterde Reacher voelt dat er meer achter steekt. Bovenal beseft hij dat ze een team moeten worden en elkaar moeten vertrouwen, willen ze overleven...

‘Compleet verslavend.’ The New York Times

‘Jack Reacher is de hedendaagse James Bond, een held waar je niet genoeg van kunt krijgen.’ Ken Follett

481 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 15, 2023

About the author

Lee Child was born October 29th, 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. 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." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. But he was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars' worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series.

Killing Floor was an immediate success and launched the series which has grown in sales and impact with every new installment. The first Jack Reacher movie, based on the novel One Shot and starring Tom Cruise and Rosamund Pike, was released in December 2012.

Lee has three homes—an apartment in Manhattan, a country house in the south of France, and whatever airplane cabin he happens to be in while traveling between the two. In the US he drives a supercharged Jaguar, which was built in Jaguar's Browns Lane plant, thirty yards from the hospital in which he was born.

Lee spends his spare time reading, listening to music, and watching the Yankees, Aston Villa, or Marseilles soccer. He is married with a grown-up daughter. He is tall and slim, despite an appalling diet and a refusal to exercise.

Reviews

[Bengu Akyurek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reacher eski bir asker olarak gizli ve sakin bir yasam yasarken bir anda banka hesabinda gordugu kusuratli rakam ile eski ekip arkadasindan bir mesaj aldigini fark eder.
4 arkadaslari helikopterden cole atilarak oldurulmustur. Neden ve kim yapti sorularini eski ekipten kalan 4 kisi olarak takip ederler. Romanin baglandigi nokta radara girmeden hedef vurabilen bir tur roket uretimi ancak bu uretimdeki hatali (hedefte sivil veya askeri arac ayiramadan) mallarin da bir teroriste satilmasi. Son sayfaya cozum olmuyor bu da kitabi heyacanli kiliyor. Kutuphaneden hollandacam gelissin diye buyuk umutlarim olmadan alip okudum ama Lee Child’dan ikinci kitabim bunu da cok begendim.

15-11- 2025