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Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia.

When a woman is kidnapped off a Chicago street in broad daylight, Jack Reacher's in the wrong place at the wrong time. He's kidnapped with her. Chained together and racing across America toward an unknown destination, they're at the mercy of a group of men demanding an impossible ransom. Because Reacher's female companion is worth more than he imagines. Now he has to save them both - from the inside out - or die trying....

Everything starts somewhere. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Reacher is ordered undercover - to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish. Reacher is a good soldier. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, he finds layers no one saw coming, and the investigation spins out of control.

Across the country women are being murdered by a killer who leaves no evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to a motive. They are, truly, perfect crimes. In fact, the only thing that links the victims is the man they all knew: Jack Reacher.

Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, 12 miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It's not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child’s electrifying new novel, Reacher - a man with no fear, no illusions, and nothing to lose - goes to war against a town that not only wants him gone, it wants him dead. It wasn’t the welcome Reacher expected. He was just passing through, minding his own business. But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope.

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.

Pericles "Perry" Christo is a P.I. with a past. A one-time NYPD homicide cop, Perry has been struggling since he lost his badge, and his marriage, in a notorious corruption scandal. So when wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla calls him one cold February night, he jumps at the chance to work what seems to be a straightforward (and lucrative) case. Julia needs Perry to track down the whereabouts of her beautiful yet aimless daughter, Angelina, who is about to become a very wealthy young heiress.

For Jack Reacher being invisible has become a habit. He spends his days digging swimming pools by hand and his nights as the bouncer in the local strip club in the Florida Keys. He doesn't want to be found. But someone has sent a private detective to seek him out. Then Reacher finds the guy beaten to death with his fingertips sliced off. It's time to head north and work out who is trying to find him and why.

Never forgive, never forget. That's Jack Reacher's operating principle. And Quinn was one of the worst guys he ever had the misfortune to meet. He had done unforgivable things. So Reacher was glad to know Quinn was dead. Until the day he saw someone who looked an awful lot like him, alive and well, riding in a limousine outside Boston's Symphony Hall.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Visitor by Lee Child, read by Jeff Harding. Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cooke have a lot in common. Both were army highflyers. Both were acquainted with Jack Reacher. Both were forced to resign from the service. Now they're both dead. Found in their own homes, naked, in a bath full of paint. Apparent victims of an army man. A loner, a smart guy with a score to settle, a ruthless vigilante. A man just like Jack Reacher.

Jack Reacher, alone, strolling nowhere. A Chicago street in bright sunshine. A young woman, struggling on crutches. Reacher offers her a steadying arm. And turns to see a handgun aimed at his stomach. Chained in a dark van racing across America, Reacher doesn't know why they've been kidnapped. The woman claims to be FBI. She's certainly tough enough. But at their remote destination, will raw courage be enough to overcome the hopeless odds?

Jack Reacher hits the pavement and sticks out his thumb. He plans to follow the sun on an epic trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn’t get far. On a country road deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been: the town where his father was born. He thinks, What’s one extra day? He takes the detour.

Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005. A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan. The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside. Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years. He decides to find out. And find the woman. And return her ring. Why not?

Mother's Rest. Un piccolo paese in mezzo a un immenso campo di grano, popolato da individui scontrosi e lunatici. Jack Reacher si chiede il perché di quel nome particolare, ma nessuno sembra intenzionato a dare spiegazioni. Lungo la strada, Reacher incontra una donna visibilmente turbata: Michelle Chang. La giovane sembra averlo scambiato per un altro e, chiarito il malinteso, si confida: l'uomo con cui stava seguendo un'investigazione privata è scomparso da giorni e, ormai, Michelle teme il peggio.

Il maggiore Jack Reacher ha un passato da eroe: West Point, tredici anni di servizio, medaglie e riconoscimenti. Il suo presente, invece, è quello di un uomo che si è scrollato di dosso le inflessibili regole dell'esercito e che vaga per gli Stati Uniti, lasciandosi guidare soltanto dal proprio istinto. Almeno fino a quando, in una luminosa giornata di giugno, vede uscire da una tintoria di Chicago una giovane donna, che si appoggia faticosamente a una stampella. Jack si ferma e le offre aiuto, ma, non appena i due si avviano, si trovano davanti tre individui armati.

Un ex poliziotto militare di alto rango, dopo aver lasciato il servizio, si è spostato per anni da un posto all'altro, senza famiglia, senza averi, senza impegni, ma soprattutto senza paura. Ottimo, perché i problemi, quelli grossi, violenti e complessi, trovano Jack Reacher ovunque si trovi. E, quando arrivano i problemi, Reacher non si arrende mai. Questa volta infatti deve vedersela con una questione lasciata in sospeso, condizione inaccettabile per un uomo che detesta qualunque cosa sia in sospeso.

Esistono ancora gli eroi veri, quelli che non cercano gloria e non sventolano bandiere, capaci di menare le mani, ma anche di insospettabili gesti di tenerezza? C'è un uomo sulle strade d'America, un duro dal cuore giusto, che ha deciso di tagliare i ponti con il passato e di vivere alla giornata, senza lavoro fisso, senza domicilio conosciuto. C'è e si chiama Jack Reacher, ex maggiore della polizia militare e un grande fiuto per trovare i problemi, per poi risolverli.

Jack Reacher è un duro. Ex maggiore della polizia militare, ha detto addio all'esercito e viaggia attraverso gli Stati Uniti. Nemmeno lui sa alla ricerca di cosa. Una nuova vita. L'opportunità di condurre un'esistenza tranquilla. Un amore che probabilmente non incontrerà mai. O forse semplicemente di guai. Nell'assolato deserto del Sudovest americano, il maggiore Reacher si imbatte in una bellissima donna di origini messicane, Carmen Greer. Sposata a un uomo violento, in carcere per problemi con il fisco, Carmen è sola, senza mezzi e con una bambina.

Una donna viene trovata morta nella vasca da bagno, nuda, il corpo immerso in una vernice color verde militare. Il suo nome è Amy Callan. Lo stesso accade a Caroline Cooke. Nessun segno di violenza, nessuna impronta digitale, nessuna fibra da analizzare: la causa della morte risulta inspiegabile persino per i migliori patologi dell'FBI. Sulle scene dei delitti non ci sono segni di effrazione, come se le donne, prima di morire, avessero ricevuto in casa una persona conosciuta.

Sergeant Amy Callan und Lieutenant Caroline Cook haben einiges gemeinsam. Beide wollten Karriere bei der Armee machen, beide waren Opfer sexueller Belästigung, beide ließen sich anschließend vom Dienst suspendieren - und beide sind jetzt tot. Beide wurden in ihrer eigenen Badewanne aufgefunden, scheinbar ohne ein einziges Anzeichen für die Todesursache. Hochrangige Profiler des FBI beginnen fieberhaft die Jagd nach einem Serienmörder: Es stellt sich heraus, dass es sich um einen Angehörigen der Armee handeln muss.