Joseph Delaney used to be an English teacher, before becoming the best-selling author of the Spook's series, which has been published in 30 countries and sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide. The first book, The Spook's Apprentice, was adapted into a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.

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Jack Reacher is a former major in the US Military Police who, since leaving the army, has drifted round the wide open spaces of America, hitchhiking or on buses, wherever the whim takes him. He has no permanent address, no job, no family ties, no car, no luggage, no mobile phone, no credit card - all he carries with him is a folding toothbrush. 
Reacher is never looking for trouble, but somehow trouble always find him. He is the ultimate hero for our troubled times, with a keen moral compass and sense of justice, even if he is often prepared to take the law into his own hands: he says he doesn't want to put the world to rights, he just doesn't like people who put it to wrongs.

'If anyone can put down Worth Dying For after the first few pages, then they shouldn't really be reading thrillers at all' Independent 
 
There's trouble in the deadly wilds of Nebraska . . . and Reacher walks right into it. He falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire country into submission. 
 
But it's the unsolved case of a missing eight-year-old girl that Reacher can't let go. 
 
Reacher - bruised and battered - should have just kept going. But for Reacher, that was impossible. 
 
What, in this fearful county, would be worth dying for? 
 
_________ 
 
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Worth Dying For follows on directly from the end of 61 Hours. 
 
And don’t miss Reacher's newest adventure, No.30, Exit Strategy! ***OUT NOW***

Worth Dying For

(Jack Reacher 15)

Jack Reacher is alone, the way he likes it. 
 
He watches a man cross a New York street and drive away in a Mercedes. The car contains $1 million of ransom money. Reacher's job is to make sure it all turns out right - money paid, family safely returned. 
 
But Reacher is in the middle of a nasty little war where nothing is simple. 
 
What started on a busy New York street explodes three thousand miles away, in the sleepy English countryside. 
 
Reacher's going to have to do this one the hard way. 
 
_________ 
 
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Hard Way is the 10th in the series. 
 
And don’t miss Reacher's newest adventure, No.30, Exit Strategy! ***OUT NOW***

The Hard Way

(Jack Reacher 10)

JACK REACHER NEVER LOOKS BACK . . . UNTIL NOW. 
 
'There's only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.' - Mick Herron. 
 
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. 
 
 
_________ 
 
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Past Tense is the 23rd in the series. 
 
And don’t miss Reacher's newest adventure, No.30, Exit Strategy! ***OUT NOW***

Past Tense

(Jack Reacher 23)

Two female army high-flyers. Both acquainted with Jack Reacher. Both forced to resign from the service. 
 
Now they're both dead. 
 
Found in their own homes, naked, in a bath full of paint. Apparent victims of an army man. A loner, a smart guy with a score to settle. 
 
A ruthless vigilante. 
 
A man just like Jack Reacher. 
 
_________ 
 
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Visitor is the 4th in the series. 
 
And don’t miss Reacher's newest adventure, No.30, Exit Strategy! ***OUT NOW***

The Visitor

(Jack Reacher 4)

"Ballsy, dynamic and not for the faint-hearted." (Daily Mail) 
 
Never forgive, never forget. 
 
Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. But he has a burning desire to right wrongs - and rewrite his own agonizing past. 
 
Never apologize. Never explain. 
 
When Reacher witnesses a brutal kidnap attempt, he takes the law into his own hands. But a cop dies. Has Reacher lost his sense of right and wrong? 
 
_________ 
 
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Persuader is seventh in the series. 
 
And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.29, In Too Deep! ***OUT NOW***

Persuader

(Jack Reacher 7)

A Washington woman asks Reacher for help. Her job? Protecting the Vice-President. Discover the action-packed thriller from the global bestselling author. 
 
'Lee Child's protagonist, Jack Reacher, is a hero in the Dirty Harry style, a man who lives by his own principles . . . Produces a surprising twist when it's least expected.' Sunday Telegraph 
 
'If there is a more iconic character in modern fiction than Jack Reacher, I'd like to meet them.' Daily Mirror 
 
_________ 
 
Jack Reacher walks alone. 
 
No job, no ID, no last known address. But he never turns down a plea for help. Now a woman tracks him down. A woman serving at the very heart of US power. A woman who needs Reacher's assistance in her new job. 
 
Her job? 
 
Protecting the Vice-President of the United States. 
 
Her problem? 
 
Someone wants the VP dead. 
 
_________ 
 
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Without Fail is the 6th in the series. 
 
And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.29, In Too Deep! **OUT NOW** 
 
 
Lee Child, Sunday Times bestselling author October 2024

Without Fail

(Jack Reacher 6)

'A fascinating, swaggeringly confident performance' Sunday Times 
 
When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly set, freshly busted nose - it isn't easy to hitch a ride in Nebraska. At last, he's picked up by three strangers - two men and a woman. 
 
Within minutes it becomes clear they're all lying about everything - and there's a police roadblock ahead. There has been an incident, and the cops are looking for the bad guys . . . 
 
Will they get through because the three are innocent? Or because the three are now four? Is Reacher just a decoy? 
 
_________ 
 
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, A Wanted Man follows on directly from the end of Worth Dying For. 
 
And don’t miss Reacher's newest adventure, No.30, Exit Strategy! ***OUT NOW***

A Wanted Man

(Jack Reacher 17)

You do not mess with Jack Reacher. 
 
He is as close to untraceable as a person can get. A loner comfortable in his anonymity and solitude. So when a member of his old Army unit finds a way to contact him, he knows this has to be serious. 
 
You do not mess with the Special Investigators. 
 
In the past the elite team always watched each other's backs. Now one of them has shown up dead in the California desert and six more are missing. 
 
Reacher's old buddies are in big trouble, and he can't let that go.

Bad Luck And Trouble

(Jack Reacher 11)

Coming soon to Prime Video

Six shots. Five dead. 
 
A heartland city thrown into terror. But within hours the cops have it solved. A slam-dunk case. Apart from one thing. The accused gunman refuses to talk except for a single phrase: 
 
Get Jack Reacher for me. 
 
Reacher lives off the grid. He's not looking for trouble. But sometimes trouble looks for him. What could connect the noble Reacher to this psychopathic killer? 
 
_________ 
 
Although the Jack Reacher can be read in any order, One Shot is the 9th in the series. 
 
And don’t miss Reacher's newest adventure, No.30, Exit Strategy! ***OUT NOW***

One Shot

(Jack Reacher 9)

"Complete with crackling fast dialogue, an edgy ambivalent plot, and the capacity to make his readers turn the page, this feels like Child's breakthrough book into the mega-sellers. He is that good." (Daily Mail) 
 
Jack Reacher, adrift in the hellish heat of a Texas summer. 
 
Looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A woman stops, and offers a ride. She is young, rich and beautiful. 
 
But her husband's in jail. When he comes out, he's going to kill her. 
 
Her family's hostile, she can't trust the cops, and the lawyers won't help. She is entangled in a web of lies and prejudice, hatred and murder. 
 
Jack Reacher never could resist a lady in distress. 
 
_________ 
 
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Echo Burning is 5th in the series. 
 
And don’t miss Reacher's newest adventure, No.30, Exit Strategy! ***OUT NOW***

Echo Burning

(Jack Reacher 5)

'A high-testosterone adventure . . . a page turner. Thrilling.' Observer 
 
From Hope to Despair. 
 
Between two small towns in Colorado, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. 
 
All Jack Reacher wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four redneck deputies, a vagrancy charge and a trip back to the line. 
 
But Reacher is a big man, and he's in shape. 
 
No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing, except bloody-minded curiosity. 
 
What are the secrets the locals seem so determined to hide? 
 
_________ 
 
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Nothing To Lose is 12th in the series. 
 
And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.29, In Too Deep! ***OUT NOW**

Nothing To Lose

(Jack Reacher 12)

"I know I say this every year. . .But. Best. Reacher. Ever." (Karin Slaughter) 
 
It's just a voice plucked from the air: 'The American wants a hundred million dollars'. 
 
For what? Who from? It's 1996, and the Soviets are long gone. But now there's a new enemy. In an apartment in Hamburg, a group of smartly-dressed young Saudis are planning something big. 
 
In the morning they gave Reacher a medal, and in the afternoon they sent him back to school. 
 
Jack Reacher is fresh off a secret mission. The Army pats him on the back and sends him to a school with only three students: Reacher, an FBI agent, and a CIA analyst. Their assignment? 
 
To find that American. And what he's selling. And to whom. 
 
_________ 
 
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Night School is 21st in the series. 
 
And don’t miss Reacher's newest adventure, No.30, Exit Strategy! ***OUT NOW***

Night School

(Jack Reacher 21)

&lsquo;If the final pages of this story don&rsquo;t make your heart race, then you might want to make sure your heart is still working.&rsquo; KARIN SLAUGHTER 
 
 
For Jack Reacher, being invisible has become a habit. 
 
He spends his days digging swimming pools by hand and his nights as the bouncer in a local strip club in the Florida Keys. 
 
He doesn't want to be found. 
 
But someone has sent a private detective to seek him out. Then Reacher finds the guy beaten to death with his fingertips sliced off. It's time to head north and work out who is trying to find him and why. 
_________ 
 
'Lee Child continues his meteoric rise and mastery of suspense with Tripwire. It's a tightly-drawn and swift thriller that gives new meaning to what a page-turner should be.' MICHAEL CONNELLY 
'A slickly effective thriller which confirms Child's ability to keep the reader guessing - and sweating.' THE TIMES 
 
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Tripwire is 3rd in the series. 
 
And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.29, In Too Deep! **PRE-ORDER NOW**

Tripwire

(Jack Reacher 3)

'This was the first Jack Reacher novel and with its lean, spare prose it has one of the most intriguing heroes of our times and displays a gift for explosive drama.' Daily Express 
 
Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. 
 
Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years.The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure. 
 
They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.

Killing Floor

(Jack Reacher, Book 1): Now a hit Prime Video series

(Jack Reacher 1)

(Jack Reacher 1): Now a hit Prime Video series

(Jack Reacher 1): Coming Soon to Prime Video

'There's only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.' Mick Herron 
 
March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in 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. 
 
The county sheriff is a former U.S. Marine - and a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Is the Pentagon stonewalling her? Or is she trying not to find the killer? 
 
Set just six months before the opening of Killing Floor, The Affair marks a turning point in Reacher's career. 
 
If he does what the army wants, will he be able to live with himself? And if he doesn't, will the army be able to live with him? 
 
_________ 
 
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Affair is 16th in the series. 
 
And don’t miss Reacher's newest adventure, No.30, Exit Strategy! ***OUT NOW***

The Affair

(Jack Reacher 16)

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