"Child's best for some time...with detective-story and romcom elements (even sly humour) on top of the psychological duels and set-piece violence." (Sunday Times)
Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there.
A remote railroad stop on the prairie with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover. He expects to find a lonely pioneer tombstone in a sea of nearly-ripe wheat.
Instead there is a woman waiting for a missing colleague, a cryptic note about two hundred deaths, and a small town full of silent, watchful people.
Reacher's one-day stopover turns into an open-ended quest leading to the most hidden reaches of the internet, and right into the nightmare heart of darkness.
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Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Make Me is 20th in the series.
Be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.29, In Too Deep! ***OUT NOW**
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9780857502681
Number of pages: 512
Weight: 349 g
Dimensions: 197 x 127 x 31 mm
Child's best for some time: an enhancement of the old formula, with detective-story and romcom elements (even sly humour) on top of the psychological duels and set-piece violence. - Sunday Times
Typically blunt and energetic...precisely judged. - Independent
Lee Child's Reacher series has hit Book No. 20 with a resounding peal of wisecracking glee ("Are you going to be a problem?" "I'm already a problem. The question is, what are you going to do about it?"). Everything about it...is as strong as ever....Make Me is a hot one. - Janet Maslin, New York Times
Breathless and bloody...You can't help lapping it up. - Evening Standard
The fights are convincing and the dialogue is as brilliant as always. - Literary Review
I am very much in love with Jack Reacher - as a man and a role model. If I can't shag him, I want to be him. - Lucy Mangan, Stylist
The Reacher books are Westerns: they are about the man of honor coming to the lawless frontier town in order to impose a rough sort of justice...[Reacher]’s leading us back into the wilderness, with the reassurance that our psychopaths are bigger and stronger than the bad guys’ psychopaths. I’ve read all twenty of Lee Child’s novels. Maybe there’s something wrong with me. But I can’t wait for the twenty-first. - Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker
Does a fine job of ratcheting up the tension...The relentlessly entertaining Reacher format shows no sign of wearing out its welcome just yet. - Mail on Sunday
As well as romance, there's as usual plenty of fast-paced, punchy action and deceptively deft plotting. - Sunday Mirror
I was unable to put thebook down...a brilliantly crafted mystery and one of Child's best. - Huffington Post
There’s a truism, wrong in my view, that all Reacher books are the same. Fair enough, there’s a murder, fair enough, our Jack will have to bust some heads to bring things to a conclusion, and fair enough he usually... More
This is the first time I have read a Lee Child Jack Reachet novel. It was a good read but I did find it a bit slow in places.
I have read all the jack reacher books and this has got to be the slowest and worst of them all. I kept reading hoping it would get better but was very disappointed in the lack of the normal jack reacher action.
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