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  • Published: 5 December 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804991602
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $22.99

Bad Luck And Trouble

(Jack Reacher 11)




You do not mess with Reacher, in Lee Child's irresistible number one bestseller.

You do not mess with Jack Reacher.

He is as close to untraceable as a person can get. A loner comfortable in his anonymity and solitude. So when a member of his old Army unit finds a way to contact him, he knows this has to be serious.

You do not mess with the Special Investigators.

In the past the elite team always watched each other's backs. Now one of them has shown up dead in the California desert and six more are missing.

Reacher's old buddies are in big trouble, and he can't let that go.

  • Published: 5 December 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804991602
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $22.99

About the author

Lee Child

Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies. Lee is the recipient of many awards, most recently Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours.

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Praise for Bad Luck And Trouble

[Reacher] has long since gained mythical status...storytelling of the highest order: lean, laconic, laced with tension

Evening Standard

The invicible Reacher is as irresistible as ever

Sunday Telegraph

One of the truly memorable tough-guy heroes in recent fiction

Jeffrey Deaver

Jack Reacher has the manliness of John Wayne, the coping skills of Jack Bauer, the fieldcraft of John Rambo and the coolness of Dirty Harry

Sunday Times

Reacher is one of those characters who is admired by his male readers and lusted after by his female ones in equal measure . . . Child's tough-as-nails protagonist has become one of the most appealing of contemporary heroes

Daily Express

Almost overnight, British author Lee Child created one of the world's most enduring and popular fiction characters in Jack Reacher . . . Child is a great storyteller . . . the reader never feels conned . . . Another sure-fire hit

Daily Mirror

Forget the A-team. If you're in a fix, and you want help, you need Jack Reacher....the twists come thick and fast, the false trails are cleverly laid and the surprise developments are genuinely unexpected...Child, as always, delivers

Yorkshire Evening Post

Perhaps there are action-lit writers more recognizable than Child, but the bet is that none of them will turn in a tighter-plotted, richer-peopled, faster-paced page-turner this year

Kirkus - starred review

As always, the action is intense, the pace unrelenting, and the violence unforgiving. Child remains the reigning master at combining breakneck yet brilliantly constructed plotting with characters who continually surprise us with their depth

Booklist - starred review

It's his hero, hyper-tough ex-US army special investigator Jack Reacher, who keeps me coming back for more...never a dull moment

Guardian
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