Blue Moon: An unputdownable Jack Reacher thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author

Lee Child

Oct 2019 · Jack Reacher Book 24 · Random House

About this eBook

AS FEATURED ON RICHARD & JUDY'S 'KEEP READING AND CARRY ON'

'This is one of his best' - The Times

Jack Reacher is back in a brand new white-knuckle read from Lee Child.

It's a random universe, but once in a blue moon things turn out just right.

In a nameless city, two rival criminal gangs are competing for control. But they hadn't counted on Jack Reacher arriving on their patch.

Reacher is trained to notice things.

He's on a Greyhound bus, watching an elderly man sleeping in his seat, with a fat envelope of cash hanging out of his pocket. Another passenger is watching too ... hoping to get rich quick.

As the mugger makes his move, Reacher steps in.

The old man is grateful, yet he turns down Reacher's offer to help him home. He's vulnerable, scared, and clearly in big, big trouble.

What hold could the gangs have on the old guy? Will Reacher be in time to stop bad things happening?

The odds are better with Reacher involved. That's for damn sure.


'Everyone needs to kick some [butt] sometimes, even if it's just imaginary' JOJO MOYES

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Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Blue Moon is the 24th in the series.

And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.29, In Too Deep! ***PRE-ORDER NOW***

Ratings and reviews

I love Reacher, but now I have to wait until these are in a bargain bin before I buy another. In this book, the set pieces were so stupid. Reacher gets lucky over and over and faces idiots who just run in front of his bullets. The Author seems to get so bored even he stops bothering to describe the fight scenes. "In the end it was inevitable. They all died." That is almost exactly how a scene ends. The Author needs to go write something else for a few years or a long break and come up with a better story.

Laughably bad. Where once Jack reacher relied on his wits, cunning, skill, size and luck to survive, he now relies on some of the most arbitrary plot devices and script armour you ever come across as he and his random rag-tag bunch of civilians happily murder even the lowest level criminals. Lazy.

Feels like it was written by and for a Republican-voting boomer, replete with references to memes like: Fake news. Russophobia. Tough on crime. Washington Post / MSM worship. Rugged individualism. Etc. At least it inadvertently makes a good case for Medicare for All. Still, it's a reacher novel - so an easy to read and good distraction.

About the author

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 including Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours.