PAST TENSE

By Lee Child

Synopsis

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?

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Narrator	Jeff Harding
Length	12hrs 30mins
Catalogue No.	13032
Publisher	Random House Audio; 2018

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61 HOURS

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THE AFFAIR

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GONE TOMORROW

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KILLING FLOOR

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MAKE ME

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THE MIDNIGHT LINE

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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?

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PERSONAL

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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?

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