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A Wanted Man

64.3% complete
2012
2023
1 time
80 chapters
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 Jack Reacher*
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Jack Reacher*     See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of action / adventure novels by Lee Child and later also by Andrew Child featuring the main character Jack Reacher.

1) Killing Floor
2) Die Trying
3) Tripwire
4) Running Blind
5) Echo Burning
6) Without Fail
7) Persuader
8) The Enemy
9) One Shot
10) The Hard Way
11) Bad Luck and Trouble
12) Nothing to Lose
13) Gone Tomorrow
14) 61 Hours
15) Worth Dying For
16) The Affair
17) A Wanted Man
18) Never Go Back
19) Personal
20) Make Me
21) Night School
22) The Midnight Line
23) Past Tense
24) Blue Moon
25) The Sentinel
26) Better Off Dead
27) No Plan B
28) The Secret
29) In Too Deep
Copyright © 2012 by Lee Child
For Jane, standing by the major oak
The eyewitness said he didn't actually see what happened.
May contain spoilers
He put one foot on the shoulder and one in the traffic lane, and he stuck out his thumb, and he smiled and tried to look friendly.
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Added: 07-Feb-2022
Last Updated: 29-Aug-2023

Publications

 11-Sep-2012
Random House
Audiobook
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Date Issued:
11-Sep-2012
Format:
Audiobook
Cover Price:
$31.50
Length:
14 hrs 12 min (417 pages)
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
2417
Publisher:
ISBN:
Unknown
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Dick Hill  - Narration
From audible.com:

Reacher is back! A Wanted Man is a new masterpiece of suspense - from number-one New York Times best-selling author Lee Child.

Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia.

An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional, the killers vanished. Within minutes, the police are notified. Within hours, the FBI descends, laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was there.

All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat - to both sides at once.

In Lee Child’s white-hot thriller, nothing is what it seems, and nobody is telling the truth. As the tension rises, the twists come fast and furious, keeping readers guessing and gasping until the explosive finale.
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Book Cover
Notes and Comments:
 01-Sep-2015
Dell Publishing Company
Paperback B
In my libraryI read this editionOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
Cir 01-Sep-2015
Format:
Paperback B
Cover Price:
$9.99
Pages*:
533
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   24 Aug 2023 - 29 Aug 2023
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
13027
ISBN:
0-440-24631-8
ISBN-13:
978-0-440-24631-2
Printing:
15
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Carlos Beltrán - Cover Design
Ryan McGinnis - Cover Photograph
"Furious action ... [Lee] Child keeps the pacing swift and the surprises rolling....  [A] feverishly thrilling series."
- The Miami Herald


Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning.  One man driving, another telling stories that don't add up.  A woman in the back, silent and worried.  And a hitchhiker with a broken nose.  An hour behind them, the FBI descends on an old pumping station where a man was stabbed to death - the knife work professional.  The killers nowhere to be seen.

All Jack Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia.  All he did was stick out his thumb.  But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride.  He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy, in which nothing is what it seems, and nobody is telling the truth.

"Smart, breathless... [features] one of the best female characters in the whole Reacher series."
- The New York Times

"Subtle and nuanced [with] seductive writing and irresistible plot twists."
- Newsweek

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Don't miss an exciting preview of Lee Child's Night School in the back of this book.

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Notes and Comments:
Dell mass market edition: September 2015
Fiftheenth printing based on the number line

Canada: $13.50

Includes:
Short story "Not a Drill"
Excpert from Night School
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11-Sep-2012
Random House
Audiobook

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01-Sep-2015
Dell Publishing Company
Paperback B

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Author(s)

 Lee Child
Birth: 29 Oct 1954 Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK
Notes:
From www.jackreacher.com:

Lee Child was born October 29th, 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. But he was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars' worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series.

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  • I try to maintain page numbers for audiobooks even though obviously there aren't any. I do this to keep track of pages read and I try to use the Kindle version page numbers for this.
  • Synopses marked with an asterisk (*) were generated by an AI. There aren't a lot since this is an iffy way to do it - AI seems to make stuff up.
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  • Page numbers on this site are for the end of the main story. I normally do not include appendices, extra material, and other miscellaneous stuff at the end of the book in the page count.






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