Editions

Past Tense

  • Imprint: Bantam Press

  • ISBN: 9780593078198

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 240mm x 37mm x 162mm

  • Weight: 648g

  • RRP: £20.00

Past Tense

  • (Jack Reacher 23)

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.

  • Imprint: Bantam Press

  • ISBN: 9780593078198

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 240mm x 37mm x 162mm

  • Weight: 648g

  • RRP: £20.00

Reviews

  • "Absolutely loved Past Tense – Lee Child just gets better and better, which is a very rare quality in a writer of a long-run series. Whip smart, always compelling, always fun, he is dangerously addictive."

    Peter James

  • "Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of"

    Ken Follett

  • "I loved it. One of the best."

    Jonathan Ross

  • "It’s Lee Child. Why would you not read it?"

    Karin Slaughter

  • "Sometimes you just want someone who can beat the s*** out of people! I pick up Jack Reacher when I’m in the mood for someone big to solve my problems"

    Patricia Cornwell

  • "Loved [Past Tense]! Nothing makes for a great weekend quite like quality time with Jack ."

    Lisa Gardner

  • "Busy, bloody and ingenious"

    The Times

  • "One of the best...hits the mark perfectly."

    Joanne Harris

  • "The pace picks up...the action becomes brutal, and we're led to an extremely satisfying conclusion...I'm becoming increasingly understanding of our appetite for fiction that features proper punishment for baddies. It's deeply comforting to escape into an imaginary world where we're all safe in Jack Reacher's gammon-joint sized hands."

    Independent

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About the Author

Lee Child

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.

Lee Child

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Events

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Features

Lee Child on Jack Reacher: ‘his fear of loneliness will get the better of his love of solitude’

With two silver-screen adaptions, over 100 million copies of his books in print and a TV series on the cards, Jack Reacher - Lee Child’s modern-day knight - is a sensation. Caroline Sanderson talks to the author about his latest novel and plans for the franchise.
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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

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