Zusatztext Child is a superb craftsman of suspense, juggling several plots and keeping his herrings well-rouged. . . . Chances are you'll want to seek out other Reacher adventures the moment you finish. Entertainment Weekly Masterful . . . a tour-de-force of both structure and suspense. The Providence Journal Child keeps his foot hard on the throttle. . . . This is Child in top form, but isn't he always? Booklist (starred review) Compulsively addictive [with] an explosive climax that will have you tearing out your hair until Reacher's next appearance. The Miami Herald Praise for the Jack Reacher series The truth about Reacher gets better and better. . . . This series [is] utterly addictive. Janet Maslin, The New York Times Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of. I read every one as soon as it appears. Ken Follett Reacher is the stuff of myth. . . . One of this century's most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes. The Washington Post I'm a fan. James Patterson The Reacher novels are easily the best thriller series going. NPR Reacher is a man for whom the phrase moral compass was invented: His code determines his direction. . . . You need Jack Reacher. The Atlantic I pick up Jack Reacher when I'm in the mood for someone big to solve my problems. Patricia Cornwell [A] feverishly thrilling series . . . You can always count on furious action. Miami Herald Informationen zum Autor Lee Child is the author of more than two dozen New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers, with most having reached the #1 position, and the #1 bestselling complete Jack Reacher story collection, No Middle Name . Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in one hundred territories. A native of England and a former television director, Lee Child lives in New York City and Wyoming. Klappentext #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Reacher gets better and better. . . . [This is the] craftiest and most highly evolved of Lee Child's electrifying Reacher books."-Janet Maslin! The New York Times "Child is a superb craftsman of suspense! juggling several plots and keeping his herrings well-rouged. . . . Chances are you'll want to seek out other Reacher adventures the moment you finish."-Entertainment Weekly A bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton! South Dakota! one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she's going to live long enough to testify! she'll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton! a coldly proficient assassin who never misses. Reacher's original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessed-but so is the woman he'll risk his life to save. "Masterful . . . a tour-de-force of both structure and suspense."-The Providence Journal "Child keeps his foot hard on the throttle. . . . This is Child in top form! but isn't he always?"-Booklist (starred review) "Compulsively addictive [with] an explosive climax that will have you tearing out your hair until Reacher's next appearance."-The Miami Herald Chapter One Five minutes to three in the afternoon. Exactly sixty-one hours before it happened. The lawyer drove in and parked in the empty lot. There was an inch of new snow on the ground, so he spent a minute fumbling in the foot well until his overshoes were secure. Then he got out and turned his collar up and walked to the visitors' entrance. There was a ...

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Lee Child is the author of more than two dozen New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers, with most having reached the #1 position, and the #1 bestselling complete Jack Reacher story collection, No Middle Name. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in one hundred territories. A native of England and a former television director, Lee Child lives in New York City and Wyoming.

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1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Reacher gets better and better. . . . [This is the] craftiest and most highly evolved of Lee Child's electrifying Reacher books."-Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"Child is a superb craftsman of suspense, juggling several plots and keeping his herrings well-rouged. . . . Chances are you'll want to seek out other Reacher adventures the moment you finish."-Entertainment Weekly

A bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she's going to live long enough to testify, she'll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.

Reacher's original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessed-but so is the woman he'll risk his life to save.

"Masterful . . . a tour-de-force of both structure and suspense."-The Providence Journal

"Child keeps his foot hard on the throttle. . . . This is Child in top form, but isn't he always?"-Booklist (starred review)

"Compulsively addictive [with] an explosive climax that will have you tearing out your hair until Reacher's next appearance."-The Miami Herald

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! 

“Reacher gets better and better. . . . [This is the] craftiest and most highly evolved of Lee Child’s electrifying Reacher books.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
 
A bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she’ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.
 
Reacher’s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessed—but so is the woman he’ll risk his life to save.

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*Chapter One

Five minutes to three in the afternoon. Exactly sixty-one  hours before it happened. The lawyer drove in and parked in the empty lot. There was an inch of new snow on the ground, so he spent a minute fumbling in the foot well until his overshoes were secure. Then he got out and turned his collar up and walked to the visitors’ entrance. There was a bitter wind out of the north. It was thick with fat lazy flakes. There was a storm sixty miles away. The radio had been full of it.

The lawyer got in through the door and stamped the snow off his feet. There was no line. It was not a regular visiting day. There was nothing ahead of him except an empty room and an empty X-ray belt and a metal detector hoop and three prison guards standing around doing nothing. He nodded to them, even though he didn’t know them. But he considered himself on their side, and they on his. Prison was a binary world. Either you were locked up, or you weren’t. They weren’t. He wasn’t.

Yet.

He took a gray plastic bin off the top of a teetering stack and folded his overcoat into it. He took off his suit coat and folded it and laid it on top of the overcoat. It was hot in the prison. Cheaper to burn a little extra oil than to give the inmates two sets of clothes, one for the summer and one for the winter. He could hear their noise ahead of him, the clatter of metal and concrete and the random crazy yells and the screams and the low grumble of other disaffected voices, all muted by doglegged corrid…