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Shadow Jack: Hunting Lee Child's Jack Reacher
The next gripping Hunt for Jack Reacher Thriller from Diane Capri!
FBI Special Agent Kim Otto picks up where Lee Child leaves off on the Hunt for Jack Reacher!
“Make some coffee. You’ll read all night.” Lee Child
Two missions. One chance.
A stranger arrives with a shocking message for FBI Special Agent Kim Reacher wants you.
Two criminal empires are tearing each other apart over sophisticated weapons diverted to killers, mercenaries, and rogue governments. Caught in the crossfire are Reacher's friends, military veterans and their families with nowhere to turn.
An arsenal of weapons that will turn the tide against Americans leaves tomorrow.
Not on Reacher's watch. Not on Kim Otto's watch, either.
Together with Reacher and his allies, Otto must stay one step ahead of the thieves, the thugs, and the assassins. They set out to take down the powerful and make the greedy pay.
Once in a blue moon, the ghost steps out of the shadows. This might be that moment.
Lee Child Gives Diane Capri Two Thumbs Up!
"Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too. Kim Otto is a great, great character - I love her." Lee Child, #1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers including Worth Dying For and The Sentinel.
The Hunt for Jack Reacher series enthralls fans of John Grisham, Lee Child, David Baldacci, Michael Connelly, Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, Lisa Reagan, Freda McFadden, Kiersten Modglin and
"Diane writes like the maestro of the jigsaw puzzle. Sit back in your favorite easy chair, pour a glass of crisp white wine, and enter her devilishly clever world." David Hagberg, New York Times Bestselling Author of Kirk McGarvey Thrillers
"Expertise shines on every page." Margaret Maron, Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Award Winning MWA Past President and MWA Grand Master
Readers Love the Hunt for Jack Reacher Series and Diane
"All Child fans should give it a try!"
Award winningNew York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI Does It Again in another Blockbuster Hunt for Jack Reacher Series Novel
FBI Special Agent Kim Otto picks up where Lee Child leaves off on the Hunt for Jack Reacher!
“Make some coffee. You’ll read all night.” Lee Child
Two missions. One chance.
A stranger arrives with a shocking message for FBI Special Agent Kim Reacher wants you.
Two criminal empires are tearing each other apart over sophisticated weapons diverted to killers, mercenaries, and rogue governments. Caught in the crossfire are Reacher's friends, military veterans and their families with nowhere to turn.
An arsenal of weapons that will turn the tide against Americans leaves tomorrow.
Not on Reacher's watch. Not on Kim Otto's watch, either.
Together with Reacher and his allies, Otto must stay one step ahead of the thieves, the thugs, and the assassins. They set out to take down the powerful and make the greedy pay.
Once in a blue moon, the ghost steps out of the shadows. This might be that moment.
Lee Child Gives Diane Capri Two Thumbs Up!
"Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too. Kim Otto is a great, great character - I love her." Lee Child, #1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers including Worth Dying For and The Sentinel.
The Hunt for Jack Reacher series enthralls fans of John Grisham, Lee Child, David Baldacci, Michael Connelly, Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, Lisa Reagan, Freda McFadden, Kiersten Modglin and
"Diane writes like the maestro of the jigsaw puzzle. Sit back in your favorite easy chair, pour a glass of crisp white wine, and enter her devilishly clever world." David Hagberg, New York Times Bestselling Author of Kirk McGarvey Thrillers
"Expertise shines on every page." Margaret Maron, Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Award Winning MWA Past President and MWA Grand Master
Readers Love the Hunt for Jack Reacher Series and Diane
"All Child fans should give it a try!"
Award winningNew York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI Does It Again in another Blockbuster Hunt for Jack Reacher Series Novel
412 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 14, 2026
About the author
Diane Capri
206 books770 followersBestselling author Diane Capri is a recovering lawyer. She’s a snowbird who divides her time between Florida and Michigan. An active member of Mystery Writers of America, Author’s Guild, International Thriller Writers, and Sisters in Crime, she loves to hear from readers and is hard at work on her next novel.
Connect with her online:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/@DianeCapri
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Diane-...
Here’s the Long version, if you’re looking for more info:
#1 Amazon Bestselling Author Diane Capri’s work is what the #1 worldwide publishing phenomenon Lee Child calls “Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too.” Margaret Maron, Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Award-winning MWA Past President, says: “Expertise shines on every page.” And Library Journal raves: “….offers tense legal drama with courtroom overtones, twisty plots, and loads of atmosphere. Recommended.”
Diane’s new Jess Kimball series kicked off with Fatal Distraction, opening as the #3 Bestselling Legal Thriller, behind John Grisham. Diane’s new Hunt for Jack Reacher series began with Don’t Know Jack, which garnered #1 Bestseller spots on Mystery, Hard-boiled Mystery, Police Procedural, Women Sleuths, and Legal Thriller lists both in the U.S. and U.K. Don’t Know Jack was followed by two bestselling short stories in the Hunt for Jack Reacher series, Jack in a Box and Jack and Kill. Diane’s Judge Wilhelmina Carson mysteries were praised by Romantic Times and garnered the coveted “Top Pick.” Diane’s savvy, spunky character, attorney Jennifer Lane, stars in her own romantic suspense series, which kicks off with Annabelle’s Attack.
Diane is the past Executive Vice President of International Thriller Writers, past member of the Board of the Florida Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, and active in Sisters in Crime and other writing organizations. She comes to writing after a successful legal career and is married to her college sweetheart. She loves her nomadic snowbird existence preferring perpetual summer migrating from Florida to Michigan each year.
Diane says she writes mystery and suspense for the same reason she reads: to find out what happens, why people do what they do, and how to bring justice to an unjust world.Her books are translated in twenty territories. Diane loves to hear from readers. Contact her at: DianeCapri.com/Contact to receive notice of new releases, subscribe to Diane’s blog, or simply connect with her.
Connect with her online:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/@DianeCapri
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Diane-...
Here’s the Long version, if you’re looking for more info:
#1 Amazon Bestselling Author Diane Capri’s work is what the #1 worldwide publishing phenomenon Lee Child calls “Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too.” Margaret Maron, Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Award-winning MWA Past President, says: “Expertise shines on every page.” And Library Journal raves: “….offers tense legal drama with courtroom overtones, twisty plots, and loads of atmosphere. Recommended.”
Diane’s new Jess Kimball series kicked off with Fatal Distraction, opening as the #3 Bestselling Legal Thriller, behind John Grisham. Diane’s new Hunt for Jack Reacher series began with Don’t Know Jack, which garnered #1 Bestseller spots on Mystery, Hard-boiled Mystery, Police Procedural, Women Sleuths, and Legal Thriller lists both in the U.S. and U.K. Don’t Know Jack was followed by two bestselling short stories in the Hunt for Jack Reacher series, Jack in a Box and Jack and Kill. Diane’s Judge Wilhelmina Carson mysteries were praised by Romantic Times and garnered the coveted “Top Pick.” Diane’s savvy, spunky character, attorney Jennifer Lane, stars in her own romantic suspense series, which kicks off with Annabelle’s Attack.
Diane is the past Executive Vice President of International Thriller Writers, past member of the Board of the Florida Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, and active in Sisters in Crime and other writing organizations. She comes to writing after a successful legal career and is married to her college sweetheart. She loves her nomadic snowbird existence preferring perpetual summer migrating from Florida to Michigan each year.
Diane says she writes mystery and suspense for the same reason she reads: to find out what happens, why people do what they do, and how to bring justice to an unjust world.Her books are translated in twenty territories. Diane loves to hear from readers. Contact her at: DianeCapri.com/Contact to receive notice of new releases, subscribe to Diane’s blog, or simply connect with her.
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April 24, 2026
Diane Capri has long impressed me with this series, which parallels the Jack Reacher collection Lee Child made popular. Capri continues to explores the race by the FBI to track down the world's most famous nomad for their own reasons. Some cases truly take the FBI in odd directions, as is the situation here, but it is when Special Agent Kim Otto and Reacher can work together that things get done. Capri keeps the reader engaged in this 21st novel of the series.
After the heist at a truck stop, FBI Special Agent Kim Otto receives word that Reacher needs her help. While the case seems like a simple snatch and steal, there is more to the story, especially when the driver is killed. It’s not his rig, per se, that is of interest, but what’s inside. It would seem that the shipment includes some highly sophisticated weaponry that has criminal elements killing one another to possess and sell to the highest bidder. These weapons could easily be turned on the US and leave the country vulnerable, which seems like what Reacher discovered and tried to prevent in the past. Now, he will need some FBI might and Otto is ready to offer it, even if they are not communicating directly. Tracing the shipment is only the beginning, as Otto, Reacher, and those working alongside them must stop something that only happens every blue moon. It will be one mission no one will want to mess up. Capri delivers well with this piece.
I have long found the writing of Diane Capri highly entertaining, which matches the intensity of any Reacher novel. Her narrative style is quick and ever-evolving, keeping the reader in the driver’s seat. Short chapters keep the story tense and Capri adds something extra to keep the reader wondering. While I have read all the Reacher novels, I never refresh my memory with the Child instalment that Capri uses as her foundation. Things trickle back as I read, but I also want these books to stand on their own, which they do with ease. While Reacher stays in the shadows throughout, he lingers and excites the reader until the very end.
Great characters emerge, both those familiar to series fans, as well as new faces to flavour the action. The development the reader gets with Kim Otto might be minor, but is balanced nicely with the ongoing Reacher crumbs. The story-based characters work well to complement the larger story and left me eager to see where things will randomly go next. This handful of characters work well and keep the reader engaged. Capri has her hands full, but never drops the ball with this stellar series.
Plot points serve to push the story forward and provide a great sense of surprise for the reader who seeks answers as to whether Jack Reacher will ever meet Kim Otto. The surprises occur and develop at key moments, forcing the reader to stay attuned to what is happening. This ongoing hunt for Reacher is present, but the casework along the way keeps the primary focus on solving things, not turning over every stone for a nomad that does not want to be found just yet.
Kudos, Madam Capri, for never losing your focus in this busy series.
Love/hate the review? An ever-growing collection of others appears at:
http://pecheyponderings.wordpress.com/
After the heist at a truck stop, FBI Special Agent Kim Otto receives word that Reacher needs her help. While the case seems like a simple snatch and steal, there is more to the story, especially when the driver is killed. It’s not his rig, per se, that is of interest, but what’s inside. It would seem that the shipment includes some highly sophisticated weaponry that has criminal elements killing one another to possess and sell to the highest bidder. These weapons could easily be turned on the US and leave the country vulnerable, which seems like what Reacher discovered and tried to prevent in the past. Now, he will need some FBI might and Otto is ready to offer it, even if they are not communicating directly. Tracing the shipment is only the beginning, as Otto, Reacher, and those working alongside them must stop something that only happens every blue moon. It will be one mission no one will want to mess up. Capri delivers well with this piece.
I have long found the writing of Diane Capri highly entertaining, which matches the intensity of any Reacher novel. Her narrative style is quick and ever-evolving, keeping the reader in the driver’s seat. Short chapters keep the story tense and Capri adds something extra to keep the reader wondering. While I have read all the Reacher novels, I never refresh my memory with the Child instalment that Capri uses as her foundation. Things trickle back as I read, but I also want these books to stand on their own, which they do with ease. While Reacher stays in the shadows throughout, he lingers and excites the reader until the very end.
Great characters emerge, both those familiar to series fans, as well as new faces to flavour the action. The development the reader gets with Kim Otto might be minor, but is balanced nicely with the ongoing Reacher crumbs. The story-based characters work well to complement the larger story and left me eager to see where things will randomly go next. This handful of characters work well and keep the reader engaged. Capri has her hands full, but never drops the ball with this stellar series.
Plot points serve to push the story forward and provide a great sense of surprise for the reader who seeks answers as to whether Jack Reacher will ever meet Kim Otto. The surprises occur and develop at key moments, forcing the reader to stay attuned to what is happening. This ongoing hunt for Reacher is present, but the casework along the way keeps the primary focus on solving things, not turning over every stone for a nomad that does not want to be found just yet.
Kudos, Madam Capri, for never losing your focus in this busy series.
Love/hate the review? An ever-growing collection of others appears at:
http://pecheyponderings.wordpress.com/
April 14, 2026
Otto and Smithers are on their way home. After several promising leads and near brushes with Reacher, they are exhausted at a dead end. Cooper remains as evasive and mysterious as ever, always seeming to keep Otto on a leash but never giving her full rein, even seeming to work against her at times. With all their leads and sources dried up, they stop for a cup of coffee at a busy truck stop. The investigation is at a standstill, with nowhere to go... until they run into Joe Hogan, a truck driver who gets into a confrontation with a group of guys who want to take his truck. Otto and Smithers intervene, but many questions remain unanswered. A seemingly benign break for Java opens up a world of trouble, international, global trouble, and Jack Reacher is right in the middle of it all. Reacher gets a message to Otto, "I need to see you." Reacher has yet to show his face openly to Otto. He may have to this time!
This is the start of yet another thrill ride. The action begins immediately and never lets up. All the key players are there, and things begin to move quickly, but just as quickly, they escalate. Diane Capri has somehow managed to keep us on the edge of our seats for 26 installments. I can hardly wait for #27!
This is the start of yet another thrill ride. The action begins immediately and never lets up. All the key players are there, and things begin to move quickly, but just as quickly, they escalate. Diane Capri has somehow managed to keep us on the edge of our seats for 26 installments. I can hardly wait for #27!
Review of advance copy received from Author
This is the newest book in one of my favorite series. FBI Agent Kim Otto has received a message that Jack Reacher wants her. Kim and her partner Smithers set off in the newest hunt in her search for Reacher. They are also assisted by Otto’s former partner Carlos Gaspar, who has retired from the FBI and now works in the private sector. I love these characters-they are very well-developed and interesting. In this hunt, they get involved with warring companies in the shipping business. It seems that military weapons and equipment are being stolen and sold to unauthorized factions. This is affecting Reacher’s friends, veterans and their families. While Otto’s mission is to find Reacher, they get involved in the illegal shipping crime. I can never put these books down (sleep is overrated, anyway).
April 23, 2026
I really enjoyed Shadow Jack by Diane Capri. She continues to amaze me with her writing—every time I pick up one of her books, I know I’m in for a great ride, and this one didn’t disappoint.
The story is packed with action right from the start, and I loved the constant push to track down Jack Reacher. That sense of commitment to the chase really drives the whole book and keeps things moving at a great pace. It’s the kind of book that’s hard to put down because there’s always something happening.
Diane Capri is just so talented at what she does. She knows how to keep the tension high and the story engaging all the way through. If you like action-packed thrillers, this is definitely one I’d recommend.
The story is packed with action right from the start, and I loved the constant push to track down Jack Reacher. That sense of commitment to the chase really drives the whole book and keeps things moving at a great pace. It’s the kind of book that’s hard to put down because there’s always something happening.
Diane Capri is just so talented at what she does. She knows how to keep the tension high and the story engaging all the way through. If you like action-packed thrillers, this is definitely one I’d recommend.
May 14, 2026
Getting Better
As a big Jack Reacher fan, I always re-read the source book before reading the Hunt for Reacher book it’s based on. And this time the two aligned better than they usually do; the author didn’t take ridiculous liberties and the story was more believable. Otto and Smithers (and Gaspar) are growing on me, so hopefully they’ll keep bringing the bad guys down, including one day their boss!
As a big Jack Reacher fan, I always re-read the source book before reading the Hunt for Reacher book it’s based on. And this time the two aligned better than they usually do; the author didn’t take ridiculous liberties and the story was more believable. Otto and Smithers (and Gaspar) are growing on me, so hopefully they’ll keep bringing the bad guys down, including one day their boss!
May 1, 2026
Exciting as always!
I love this series. I have read them all. Always wanting more. This one was wild! Another old score settled the hard way. Ahhhh, such is the hunt for Jack Reacher.
I love this series. I have read them all. Always wanting more. This one was wild! Another old score settled the hard way. Ahhhh, such is the hunt for Jack Reacher.
May 3, 2026
Too much violence & killing & few "good guys"
I sure hope the East coast trucking isn't really this corrupt. So much violence and death, of good and bad guys. And definitely no HEA which I really prefer in my reading. At least give us a "happy for now."
I sure hope the East coast trucking isn't really this corrupt. So much violence and death, of good and bad guys. And definitely no HEA which I really prefer in my reading. At least give us a "happy for now."
May 5, 2026
An excellent read!
An inside look at the trucking industry, and the corruption inside it. Is Reacher involved? What's his involvement? Can Otto find him?
An inside look at the trucking industry, and the corruption inside it. Is Reacher involved? What's his involvement? Can Otto find him?
May 6, 2026
Quick pace
A little bit of background information but not to the point of hindering the plot of THIS story. Well told with good alliteration.
A little bit of background information but not to the point of hindering the plot of THIS story. Well told with good alliteration.
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