Il passato non muore

by Lee Child

Partito per un tranquillo viaggio, sulle orme dei grandi avventurieri americani, Reacher si ferma dopo pochi giorni. Il cartello che segnala la città in cui nacque suo padre accende la sua curiosità e lui decide di fare una deviazione. Quando però si rivolge all'impiegato degli uffici della cittadina per trovare la casa paterna, scopre che nessuno di nome Reacher ha mai vissuto lì. La sua famiglia può avergli mentito? E se l'ha fatto, perché? Contemporaneamente, una giovane coppia canadese sta per vivere un incubo. Bloccati in uno strano motel in mezzo al nulla, i due ragazzi vengono intrappolati in un inquietante gioco tra vita e morte. Mentre Reacher cerca di fare chiarezza sui segreti della sua famiglia e i canadesi rischiano tutto, le due storie cominciano a intrecciarsi. La tensione aumenta pagina dopo pagina e la posta in gioco non è mai stata così alta, perché il passato non muore mai...

400 pages, Paperback

Published February 24, 2022

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.