Lee Child

A bus crash in a South Dakota blizzard strands Reacher in a small town where a witness to a drug case is under threat, a nearby military installation holds a dangerous secret, and Reacher has 61 hours before everything goes wrong. Child's countdown structure turns each chapter into a timer.

Members of Reacher's old Special Investigations unit are being murdered one by one, and someone has wired $30,000 into Reacher's bank account — the unit's old distress signal. For the first time in the series, Reacher assembles a team to find out who is hunting his people.

On a New York City subway at 2am, Reacher spots a woman exhibiting the eleven behavioural signs of a suicide bomber. What follows spirals into a conspiracy reaching back to Afghanistan and forward into a senator's carefully constructed political future.

Reacher stops at a town called Mother's Rest with no reason other than curiosity about the name. A journalist searching for a missing colleague pulls him into something far darker — a secret that explains the town's strange, unsettled atmosphere and that proves to be genuinely horrifying.

A sniper kills five random people in a midwestern city. The evidence is overwhelming. The suspect is in custody. He asks for one thing: Jack Reacher. Reacher arrives not to help the man get off, but to make sure justice is done — only to discover that something about the case does not add up.

Jack Reacher is accidentally grabbed off a Chicago street alongside a woman he barely knows — an FBI agent named Holly Johnson. Their kidnappers are a heavily armed militia group with a survivalist compound in Montana and a plan that amounts to mass murder. Reacher has no weapon, no help, and an 800-mile journey between him and the militia's endgame.

Hitchhiking through the Texas heat, Reacher accepts a ride from Carmen Greer — a woman fleeing an abusive husband who is due home from prison. By the time Reacher understands the full picture of the Greer family, the Echo County ranch, and the three hired killers heading for it, he is already too involved to walk away.

Ex-military cop Jack Reacher is arrested for a murder he did not commit in a small Georgia town and uncovers a massive counterfeiting conspiracy that cost his brother his life.

Hamburg, 1996. Reacher is pulled from his regular Army assignment and placed in a clandestine inter-agency team — the so-called night school — tasked with identifying an unknown buyer who is about to pay $100 million for something unknown. A prequel-in-spirit showing Reacher at his military peak.

Reacher decides to visit the New Hampshire town where his father was born — and finds no record of the Reacher family ever existing there. Simultaneously, a young Canadian couple becomes trapped at a remote motel where nothing is as it appears. A rare entry in the series that invites the reader to think about who Reacher really is.

A near-impossible sniper shot attempted against the French president — from 1,400 yards — points to one of four living marksmen, including Reacher's old adversary John Kott. Reacher is sent to Paris and London to find the shooter before a G8 summit becomes a killing ground.

A detour through rural Nebraska puts Reacher between the Duncan family — a violent local crime dynasty that controls everything for miles — and the frightened community that has lived under their thumb for decades. A stripped-back Reacher story with the feel of a modern western.

Reacher hitches a ride with three strangers on a Nebraska highway and quickly determines that one of them is a killer. An FBI roadblock, a missing woman, and a trailer full of secrets turn a routine ride into something far more dangerous.