Len Deighton was born in 1929 in London. He did his national service in the RAF, went to the Royal College of Art and designed many book jackets, including the original UK edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. The enormous success of his first spy novel, The IPCRESS File (1962), was repeated in a remarkable sequence of books over the following decades. These varied from historical fiction (Bomber, perhaps his greatest novel) to dystopian alternative fiction (SS-GB) and a number of brilliant non-fiction books on the Second World War (Fighter, Blitzkrieg and Blood, Tears and Folly). 
 
His spy novels chart the twists and turns of Britain and the Cold War in ways which now give them a unique flavour. They preserve a world in which Europe contains many dictatorships, in which the personal can be ruined by the ideological and where the horrors of the Second World War are buried under only a very thin layer of soil. Deighton's fascination with technology, his sense of humour and his brilliant evocation of time and place make him one of the key British espionage writers, alongside John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré.

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Lee Child

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.

'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

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Andrew Child

Reacher never backs down from a problem. 
 
And he's about to find a big one, on a deserted Arizona road, where a Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. Under the merciless desert sun, nothing is as it seems. 
 
Minutes later Reacher is heading into the nearby border town, a backwater that has seen better days. Next to him is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent, who is trying to find her twin brother. He might have got mixed up with some dangerous people. 
 
And Reacher might just need to pay them a visit. 
 
Their leader has burrowed his influence deep into the town. Just to get in and meet the mysterious Dendoncker, 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. 
 
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Better Off Dead is the 26th book in the internationally popular series. 
 
And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.29, In Too Deep! ***OUT NOW*** 
 
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'Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of.' KEN FOLLETT 
 
'If you haven't read any Jack Reacher, you have a treat in store . . . a hitchhiker without a phone, a one-man force for good.' The Times 
 
'A contemporary version of the knight in shining armour . . . Reacher is a mythic figure.' Literary Review 
 
'Jack Reacher is a wonderfully epic hero; tough, taciturn, yet vulnerable... Irresistible.' People 
 
'Jack Reacher has long since earned his prominent place in the pantheon of cool, smart-talking American heroes.' New York Times 
 
 
Lee Child & Andrew Child, Number 1 Sunday Times bestsellers, April 2024

Better Off Dead

(Jack Reacher 26)

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?

The Secret

Jack Reacher, Book 28

"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)

Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had got there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. 
 
Jack Reacher wakes up, alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. 
 
The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed. 
 
His captors assume Reacher was the driver's accomplice and patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk. 
 
A plan that will backfire spectacularly . . . 
 
'There's only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.' MICK HERRON 
 
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, In Too Deep is the 29th book in the internationally bestselling series. 
 
And don’t miss Reacher's newest adventure, No.30, Exit Strategy! ***OUT NOW***

In Too Deep

(Jack Reacher 29)

The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the No.1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child. 
 
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, pushing the victim to her death, before grabbing her bag and sauntering away. 
 
Reacher follows the killer, 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...

No Plan B

The unputdownable new Jack Reacher thriller from the No.1 bestselling authors

&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. 
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'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)

'Cunning, explosive . . . A thumping good read.' Time Out 
 
Jack Reacher, alone, strolling nowhere. 
 
A Chicago street in bright sunshine. A young woman, struggling on crutches. Reacher offers her a steadying arm. 
 
And turns to see a handgun aimed at his stomach. 
 
Chained in a dark van racing across America, Reacher doesn't know why they've been kidnapped. The woman claims to be FBI. She's certainly tough enough. But at their remote destination, will raw courage be enough to overcome the hopeless odds? 
 
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Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Die Trying is the 2nd in the series. 
 
And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.29, In Too Deep! ***PRE-ORDER NOW**

Die Trying

(Jack Reacher 2)

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.

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