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  • Published: 19 September 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448171361
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 1 hr 59 min
  • Narrator: Kerry Shale
  • RRP: $17.99

High Heat: (A Jack Reacher Novella)




A long short story about Jack Reacher as a teenager in the city that never sleeps, originally published exclusively as an ebook, now also available in the Reacher short story collection No Middle Name.

Thriller master Lee Child presents an exclusive ebook novella about the teenage Reacher.

July 1977. Jack Reacher is almost seventeen, and he stops in New York on his way from South Korea to visit his brother at West Point. The summer heat is suffocating, fires are raging in the Bronx, the city is bankrupt, and the mad gunman known as Son of Sam is still on the loose.

Reacher meets a woman with a problem, and agrees to help her . . . and then the power grid fails and the lights go out, plunging the lawless city that never sleeps into chaos.

What does a visiting teenager do in the dark? If that visiting teenager is Jack Reacher, the answer is: plenty.

  • Published: 19 September 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448171361
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 1 hr 59 min
  • Narrator: Kerry Shale
  • RRP: $17.99

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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