A WANTED MAN

By Lee Child

Synopsis

Jack Reacher has some unfinished business in Virginia, so he hitches a ride with three strangers - two men and a woman. But within minutes it becomes clear they're all lying about everything - and then they run into a police roadblock on the highway. There has been an incident, and the cops are looking for the bad guys....

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Narrator	Jeff Harding
Length	12hrs 30mins
Catalogue No.	11919
Publisher	Soundings Audio; 2012

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61 HOURS

A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. Reacher's original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything...

THE AFFAIR

March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy - or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover.

BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE

Drifter, Jack Reacher, springs into action when one of the former members of his old army unit is killed. The Special Investigators have always looked out for one another so it’s time to put the unit back together.

BETTER OFF DEAD

Reacher never backs down from a problem. And he's about to find a big one, on a deserted road in Arizona, where a car has crashed into the only tree for miles around. Minutes later, Reacher is heading into town. To introduce himself to the shadowy crew who made it happen. Their boss has a terrifying reputation and the stakes are high. Just to get in and meet him, Reacher is going to have to achieve the impossible. To get answers will be even harder. There are people in this hostile, empty place who would rather die, than reveal their secrets. But then, if Reacher is coming after you, you might be better off dead.

GONE TOMORROW

It's 2am, and Jack Reacher is riding the subway in New York when he notices a suspicious looking passenger who matches the giveaway signs for a potential suicide bomber. When he approaches her, she shoots herself. His guilt over possibly triggering her suicide won't let him rest, even though the police are eager to close the file.

THE HARD WAY

Ex-military cop Jack Reacher is on the trail of a vicious kidnapper, hired by Edward Lane, whose beautiful wife and child have been taken. Jack comes to realise that Lane is hiding some chilling secrets but it’s too late to stop now!

KILLING FLOOR

Killing Floor is the first book in the phenomenal bestselling Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. It introduces Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode. Trained to think fast and act faster, he is the perfect action hero for when times get tough.Margrave is a no-account little town in Georgia. Jack Reacher steps off a bus and walks fourteen miles in the rain to reach it, in search of a dead guitar player. But Margrave has just had its first homicide in thirty years. And Reacher is the only stranger in town. He seems the obvious fall guy. As the body count mounts, only one thing is for sure: they picked the wrong guy to frame for murder.

MAKE ME

Jack Reacher has no place to go and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote railroad stop with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover. But instead he finds a woman waiting for a missing private investigator, a cryptic note about 200 deaths, and a small town full of silent, watchful people.

THE MIDNIGHT LINE

Jack Reacher sees a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window. It's a woman cadet’s graduation present to herself. Reacher was a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it. Why would she give it up? All he wants is to find the woman. If she’s ok, he’ll walk away. If she’s not … he’ll stop at nothing.

NEVER GO BACK

After an epic journey from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. His destination: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP, the closest thing to a home he ever had. What Reacher doesn’t expect is what comes next. He himself is in big trouble, accused of a sixteen-year-old homicide. Will he be sorry he went back? Or – will someone else?

NIGHT SCHOOL

It’s 1996, and the Soviets are long gone. But now there’s a new enemy. In Hamburg, a group of smartly-dressed young Saudis are planning something big. Jack Reacher is fresh off a successful mission in the Balkans, but receives new orders. With trusted sergeant Frances Neagley at his side, he must carry the fate of the world on his shoulders.

NO MIDDLE NAME: THE COMPLETE COLLECTED JACK REACHER STORIES

Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex-military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs. These twelve stories shed new light on Reacher’s past, illuminating how he grew up and developed into one of the most iconic heroes of our age.

NO PLAN B

Gerrardsville, Colorado. One tragic event. Two witnesses. Two conflicting accounts. One witness sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus - clearly suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher. And he sees what really happened - a man in grey hoodie and jeans, swift and silent as a shadow, pushed the victim to her death, before grabbing her bag and sauntering away. Reacher follows the killer on foot, not knowing that this was no random act of violence. It is part of something much bigger...a sinister, secret conspiracy, with powerful people on the take, enmeshed in an elaborate plot that leaves no room for error. If any step is compromised, the threat will have to be quickly and permanently removed. But when the threat is Reacher, there is No Plan B...

NOTHING TO LOSE

Two small towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. But what is the secret the locals seem so keen to hide? Ex-military cop Reacher pulls on a tiny loose thread, to unravel conspiracies that expose the most shocking truths. Because, after all, Jack Reacher has nothing to lose.

ONE SHOT

Five people are killed in a public plaza in Indiana, shot through the head. But the killer leaves a perfect trail of evidence behind him, and after his arrest, his only words are, 'Get Jack Reacher for me.' What could possibly connect this psychopath and the wandering dropout, ex-army cop?

PAST TENSE

Jack Reacher plans an epic road trip from Maine to California. He doesn’t get far. On a country road he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. He takes the detour, and in the city clerk's office Reacher asks about the old family home. He’s told no one named Reacher ever lived in that town. He knows his father never went back. Now he wonders, was he ever there in the first place?

PERSONAL

Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a hard man in the US military police, now he’s a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president. Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him.

THE SECRET

Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient wakes to find two strangers by his bed. They show him a list of names and ask a simple but impossible question. Minutes later he falls to his death from his twelfth-floor window - a fall which generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher, recently demoted from Major, is assigned as the Army's representative. If he gets a result, great. If not, he's a convenient fall guy. Reacher may be an exceptional military investigator, but office politics aren't what gets him up in the morning. As he races to identify a cold-blooded killer and uncover a secret that stretches back 23 years, he must navigate around his new partners. Will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way . . .or his way?

WORTH DYING FOR

There's deadly trouble in the wilds of Nebraska... and Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county. But it's the unsolved case of a missing eight-year-old girl, already decades-old, that Reacher can't let go...