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Gerrardsville, Colorado. One tragic event. Two witnesses. Two conflicting accounts. One witness sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus - clearly suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher. And he sees what really happened - a man in grey hoodie and jeans, swift and silent as a shadow, pushed the victim to her death, before grabbing her bag and sauntering away.
Reacher follows the killer on foot, not knowing that this was no random act of violence. It is part of something much bigger...a sinister, secret conspiracy, with powerful people on the take, enmeshed in an elaborate plot that leaves no room for error. If any step is compromised, the threat will have to be quickly and permanently removed.
But when the threat is Reacher, there is No Plan B...
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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.
Interesting plot, as there usually is with a Jack Reacher novel. Jack Reacher witnesses what looks like as suicide but isn’t, a woman is pushed under a bus, but why? He chases the guy who takes her handbag and finds an envelope in it. The police rule it as a suicide, Reacher decides to follow it through, and find out why she was pushed under a bus. He meets up with a woman whose ex husband the woman was supposed to meet, who had just died of a heart attack, they team up to go to her work place, a prison in Winson Mississippi. There are followed and almost killed along the way. There are two other story lines with other characters also running alongside which also connect to the Prison. A different ending to what I was expecting, but an interesting read.
Loved this book. It had a lovely story line and could really get into it. I do feel however it isn't the best book I have read and could of done with more information at some points. I also found I was kind of reading like 3 stories at once that turn into one. Which as lovely as that is did become a bit confusing for me at times. But overall would highly recommend this book to any thriller/crime lovers. 💗