La fila de medianoche: Una novela de Jack Reacher

by Lee Child, Aldo Giacometti (Translator)

En otro de sus frecuentes viajes por lo profundo de Estados Unidos, en una parada de servicio al lado de un triste pueblo del medio oeste, Jack Reacher, ex policía militar, encuentra un anillo de graduación de West Point en el escaparate de una casa de empeños. El anillo, una tradición entre quienes se gradúan en la academia militar a la que él mismo asistió, le llama la atención no solo por su pequeño tamaño –evidentemente, de mujer– sino por el hecho mismo de que haya sido empeñ ningún graduado de West Point lo empeñaría salvo estar atravesando una situación extrema. 

De modo que ese anillo tiene que tener una historia. El famoso detective y justiciero de Child decide iniciar una investigación que lo llevará al montañoso oeste de los Estados Unidos, hacia Dakota del Sur y Wyoming. 

 Entre caminos polvorientos y persecuciones, Reacher verá por sí mismo otro lado de la guerra, uno que se pelea en el interior del territorio estadounidense.

La fila de medianoche es otra de las grandes novelas de Lee Child, el consagrado escritor de thrillers del siglo XXI. 

Jack Reacher #22

   

449 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 29, 2025

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

[Damián Tullio]

Como siempre con Lee Child, me tuvo atrapado las cuatrocientas páginas, aunque tengo que confesar que esta tiene el final más decepcionante de toda la serie. Personajes que quedan en ascuas, misterios que al final no eran gran cosa, bastante anticlimática. Supongo que para ser la entrega #22 de la saga, tampoco está tan mal.
Aguante Reacher.