There were six men in the room, and this was the third covert meeting they’d held there in the last week. There are the bad guys who run a private prison system that has something to hide, a teenaged runaway looking for his father and an arsonist looking for revenge. While Reacher and another Colorado local try to peel things back, which include a trip to Mississippi, a young boy has begun a trek across the country to flee a troubled home life. A prison full of guys talented enough to create forgeries of famous works of art or computer geniuses? I found the transition from Lee to Andrew pretty seamless, with no diminution of author skill or reader enjoyment.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. By signing up I consent to you using my details to send me Jack Reacher newsletters from the UK and confirm that I have read Penguin Random House’s Privacy Policy. I know it was a Jack Reacher audiobook because it said so on the front cover, but otherwise I could have been listening to any ordinary action/crime novel.Reacher follows the killer on foot, not knowing that he is part of something much bigger and far-reaching . It takes the reader on a circuitous journey through a maze of characters, plots, subplots, twists and turns before ending up in a finale that ‘pays off’ everything beautifully. As with any long-running series like this, the plot scenario never varies too far from what has always worked well.

One of Waterstones’ very favourite authors, Lee Child sprang from redundancy at Granada Television in 1995 to rise to thriller-writing pre-eminence with his sequence of stories featuring ex-military policeman Jack Reacher.

Other cancelled products: If you want to cancel products that are not damaged or incorrectly supplied, then you must inform us of this within seven working days following the date of receipt in accordance with the Distance Selling Regulations or otherwise as soon as possible. The men were spread out around a long, narrow table and there were two spare chairs pushed back against a blank, white wall.