Lee Child

Past Tense

  • Past Tense

  • JACK REACHER NEVER LOOKS BACK . . . UNTIL NOW.

    The most hotly anticipated thriller of the year follows our hero Jack Reacher on a quest into his father's past, and climaxes in the most blood-curdling ticking time bomb of an adventure yet.

    The present can be tense . . .

    A young couple trying to get to New York City are stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. Before long they’re trapped in an ominous game of life and death.

    But the past can be worse . . .

    Meanwhile, Jack Reacher sets out on an epic road trip across America. He doesn’t get far. Deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. But when he arrives he is told no one named Reacher ever lived there. Now he wonders: who’s lying?

    As the tension ratchets up and these two stories begin to entwine, the stakes have never been higher for Reacher.

    That’s for damn sure.

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The Sentinel
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  • Andrew Child
Blue Moon
Blue Moon
Lee Child
Past Tense
Past Tense
Lee Child
The Fourth Man
The Fourth Man
Lee Child
The Christmas Scorpion
The Christmas Scorpion
Lee Child
Too Much Time
Too Much Time
Lee Child
The Midnight Line
The Midnight Line
Lee Child
No Middle Name
No Middle Name
Lee Child
Night School
Night School
Lee Child
Jack Reacher Film Collection
Jack Reacher Film Collection
Lee Child
Make Me
Make Me
Lee Child
Small Wars
Small Wars
Lee Child
Personal
Personal
Lee Child
Not a Drill (A Jack Reacher short story)
Not a Drill (A Jack Reacher short story)
Lee Child
Never Go Back
Never Go Back
Lee Child
High Heat: (A Jack Reacher Novella)
High Heat: (A Jack Reacher Novella)
Lee Child
A Wanted Man
A Wanted Man
Lee Child
The Deep Blue Goodby
The Deep Blue Goodby
John D MacDonald
Reacher's Rules: Life Lessons From Jack Reacher
Reacher's Rules: Life Lessons From Jack Reacher
Jack Reacher
The Affair
The Affair
Lee Child
Deep Down (A Jack Reacher short story)
Deep Down (A Jack Reacher short story)
Lee Child
James Penney's New Identity/Guy Walks Into a Bar
James Penney's New Identity/Guy Walks Into a Bar
Lee Child
Second Son: (Jack Reacher Short Story)
Second Son: (Jack Reacher Short Story)
Lee Child
Worth Dying For
Worth Dying For
Lee Child
Bad Luck And Trouble
Bad Luck And Trouble
Lee Child
The Hard Way
The Hard Way
Lee Child
One Shot
One Shot
Lee Child
61 Hours
61 Hours
Lee Child
Gone Tomorrow
Gone Tomorrow
Lee Child
Jack Reacher (One Shot)
Jack Reacher (One Shot)
Lee Child
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Events

Lee Child and Andrew Child: The Next Chapter, 27th October
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Adults

Lee Child and Ian Rankin in Conversation
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Extracts

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back by Lee Child

Now a major film starring Tom Cruise, read the opening chapters of Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher novel Never Go Back
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Spotlight on Jack Reacher

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Extracts

Personal by Lee Child

In an extract from Lee Child's thriller Personal, Jack Reacher is in Seattle where he is enlisted on a new mission: to Paris

Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies. Lee is the recipient of many awards, most recently Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours.

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