Bad Luck and Trouble: A Jack Reacher Novel: [Audiobook]

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From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of exarmy investigators is being hunted down one by one.... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reachersoldier, cop, herois pulled out of his wandering life by a code that few other people could understand. From the first shocking scenes in Lee Childs explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged like a knife into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friendsand is on its way to something even worse.

A decade postmilitary, Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his backno phone, no ties, and no address. But now a woman from his old unit has done the impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds Reacher, using a signal only the eight members of their elite team of army investigators would know. She tells him a terrifying storyabout the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his old team, scrambling to raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing darker by the day. The deeper they dig, the more they dont know: about two other comrades who have suddenly gone missingand a trail that leads into the neon of Vegas and the darkness of international terrorism.

For now, Reacher can only react. To every sound. Every suspicion. Every scent and every moment. Then Reacher will trust the people he once trusted with his lifeand take this thing all the way to the end. Because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, theyd better be ready for what comes right back at them

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Praise for the Jack Reacher series

The truth about Reacher gets better and better. . . . This series [is] utterly addictive.Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Jack Reacher is todays James Bond, a thriller hero we cant get enough of. I read every one as soon as it appears.Ken Follett

Reacher is the stuff of myth. . . . One of this centurys most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes.The Washington Post

Im a fan.James Patterson

The Reacher novels are easily the best thriller series going.NPR

Reacher is a man for whom the phrase moral compass was invented:His code determines his direction. . . . You need Jack Reacher.The Atlantic

I pick up Jack Reacher when Im in the mood for someone big to solve my problems.Patricia Cornwell

[A] feverishly thrilling series . . . You can always count on furious action.Miami Herald

Author Bio

Lee Child is the author of eleven Jack Reacher thrillers, including the New York Times bestsellers The Enemy, One Shot, which has been optioned for a major motion picture by Paramount Pictures, and The Hard Way. His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry Awards for Best First Mystery. Child, a native of England and a former television writer, lives in New York City.