The Christmas Scorpion (A Jack Reacher Short Story)
โ Scribed by Lee Child
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 94 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
On Christmas Eve, Jack Reacher stumbles into a no-name bar in the California desert, desperate to take refuge from an unexpected snowstorm. Reacher came to Barstow for a little R&R. Instead, hes sequestered in a dark little roadhouse with a bartender, a bewildered elderly coupleand two members of Britains Royal Military Police. They tell Reacher they were escorting a VIP to a top-secret meeting at a U.S. military base when they became separated from their charge. Thats when the threat came in from a notorious assassin: the Christmas Scorpion. Now they need a miracle to save the day. Or maybe all they need is Jack Reacher.
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