Killing Floor: (Jack Reacher 1): Now a hit Prime Video series

Lee Child

Sep 2009 · Jack Reacher Book 1 · Random House

About this ebook

**NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON**

"This was the first Jack Reacher novel and with its lean, spare prose it has one of the most intriguing heroes of our times and displays a gift for explosive drama." (Daily Express)

Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret.

Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years.The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure.

They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.

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Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular series. It presents Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs, the perfect action hero.

And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.28, The Secret! ***OUT NOW***

Ratings and reviews

First book in a long while that I found myself looking for time to read rather than looking for something to do in the odd few minutes I usually get. Made me want to read again. And I'm an avid reader (or was), taking in a few books a month at one point. This has sparked my desire to read once more. I especially liked the first person perspective, it's my personal favourite way to write stories. Having seen the two films (before reading any of the books) I expected this to be faster paced, but I was pleasantly surprised. The writing is clever and well thought out. The dialogue is snappy too. One thing I think the author did well was not dwell on the gore or violence too much considering the context of the story.

Lee Child tries to create a oblique view of one man's quest through life. I couldn't imagine anyone living like Reacher, drifting into and out of situations and trouble. He makes a good fist of it though and keeps you on the edge of reading experience. There's always something around the corner, and Child's detail and description is faultless. It all built up to a satisfying conclusion. Try One Shot by the same author.

The Coventry boy can do no wrong for me.Great read.How I wish I was 6ft plus and could go round cracking skulls like Jack Reacher,instead of being 75 years and 5ft 8in.His powers of deduction are worthy of Sherlock.....capt ferry Bob

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 are published in over one hundred territories. He is the recipient of many prizes, most recently the CWA’s Diamond Dagger for a writer of an outstanding body of crime fiction.

Jack Reacher, the first Jack Reacher movie starring Tom Cruise, was based on the novel One Shot, and the second is Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.