Get ready for the ultimate Jack Reacher experience: a thrilling new novella and eleven previously published stories, together for the first time in one pulse-pounding collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child.
No Middle Name begins with Too Much Time, a brand-new work of short fiction that finds Reacher in a hollowed-out town in Maine, where he witnesses a random bag-snatching but sees much more than a simple crime. Small Wars takes readers back to 1989, when Reacher is an MP assigned to solve the brutal murder of a young officer found along an isolated forest road in Georgiaand whose killer may be hiding in plain sight. In Not a Drill, Reacher tries to take some downtime, but a pleasant hike in Maine turns into a walk on the wild sideand perhaps something far more sinister. High Heat time-hops to 1977, when Reacher is a teenager in sweltering New York City during a sudden blackout that awakens the dark side of the city that never sleeps. Okinawa is the setting of Second Son, which reveals the pivotal moment when young Reachers sharp lizard brain becomes just as important as his muscle. In Deep Down, Reacher tracks down a spy by matching wits with four formidable femalesthree of whom are clean, but the fourth may prove fatal. Rounding out the collection are Guy Walks into a Bar, James Penneys New Identity, Everyone Talks, The Picture of the Lonely Diner, Maybe They Have a Tradition, and No Room at the Motel.
No suitcase. No destination. No middle name. No matter how far Reacher travels off the beaten path, trouble always finds him. Feel bad for trouble.
Praise for Lee Child
Theres a reason [Lee] Child is considered the best of the best in the thriller genre.Associated Press
This series [is] utterly addictive.Janet Maslin, *The New York Times*
Jack Reacher is todays James Bond, a thriller hero we cant get enough of. I read every one as soon as it appears.Ken Follett
The Reacher novels are easily the best thriller series going.NPR
Reachers just one of fictions great mysterious strangers.Maxim
Irresistible Reacher remains just about the best butt-kicker in thriller-lit.Kirkus Reviews
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