Jack Reacher, ex-military policeman relaxed in Key West until Costello turned up dead. The amiable PI was hired in New York by the daughter of Reacher's mentor and former commanding officer, General Garber. Garber's investigation into a Vietnam MIA sets Reacher on collision with hand-less "Hook" Hobie, hours away from his biggest score.

Des gages pour l'enfer  (Jack Reacher Series, #3)

Votre compte en banque vient d’être crédité de 1 030 dollars. Erreur de la banque en votre faveur ? Toute personne normalement constituée s’en réjouirait. Pas Jack Reacher. 1 030, c’est le code d’alerte de son ancienne unité d’élite de la CIA : l’un de ses membres a été assassiné. Reacher réunit ses anciens coéquipiers mais certains manquent à l’appel. Il comprend que toute l’unité est menacée…

La Faute à pas de chance (Jack Reacher, #11)

Will Trent, du Georgia Bureau of Investigation, se fait engager sous une fausse identité comme main d'oeuvre à Fort Knox après avoir découvert que l'individu qu'il soupçonne dans le meurtre d'un policier vingt-deux ans plus tôt, a été embauché pour l'inspection et le nettoyage des lingots d'or qui ont lieu tous les dix ans. Entré dans la célèbre chambre forte, il rencontre enfin le suspect  : Jack Reacher.
Karin Slaughter et Lee Child nous offrent une rencontre inédite : celle de deux héros cultes, Will Trent et Jack Reacher (le flic dyslexique et l'ancien officier de police militaire) mais aussi celle de deux plumes du polar contemporain. Et si cette première collaboration était le début d'un nouveau tandem du crime  ?  
  
Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Alexia Valembois
  
Les auteurs  :  
N°1 sur les listes internationales de best-sellers, Karin Slaughter est l'un des auteurs les plus populaires et les plus plébiscités dans le monde.
Avec son héros froid et hanté par son passé, Jack Reacher, incarné par Tom Cruise au cinéma, Lee Child est, comme son personnage, rentré dans la légende.

Argent sale

Pourquoi cette ville s’appelle-t-elle « Mother’s Rest » ? C’est la question qui pousse Jack Reacher à descendre d’un train, en pleine nuit, dans cette bourgade perdue de l’Oklahoma.À la gare, une femme splendide semble l’attendre. Mais Michelle Chang, ex-agent du FBI, l’a pris pour Keever, qu’elle cherche désespérément. Son collègue a disparu. Sans hésiter une seconde, Reacher décide de l'aider à le retrouver. Mais ce qu’il ignore, c’est qu’après un périple à travers tout le pays et dans les profondeurs du Darknet, il se retrouvera à la case départ, à Mother’s Rest, face au pire cauchemar imaginable. « Ce que j’aime Lee Child ! »

Bienvenue à Mother's Rest

With each new book, more and more join the chorus of praise for "one of the most original and daring heroes in suspense fiction" (The Providence Journal-Bulletin), Lee Child's ex-military cop Jack Reacher.
In Without Fail, Reacher is approached by a Secret Service agent who needs a favor. "I want to hire you to assassinate the Vice President of the United States," she asks. She is the newly appointed head of the VP's security detail and wants Reacher to try to penetrate her team's shield. He has the skills and the stealth, and no one knows him. How else can she be sure her protection is truly effective?What she doesn't tell Reacher-but what he soon discovers-is that a very determined and deadly team of assassins has just put the VP in its sights. These men have planned well, but they haven't planned on Reacher. For only Reacher has the head and the heart to corner his prey and bring them to justice-without fail.

Pas droit à l'erreur

-Sans doute le meilleur de la serie a emporter sur une ile deserte.L intrigue est exceptionnellement bien concue et les surprisesrenversantes.-
  The New York Times
Des deserts glaces du Dakota du Sud a son ancien bureau de la 110e unite de police de WashingtonDC, la route est longue et semee d embuches, mais apres bien des peripeties et avoir expedie au tapis deux individus qui lui conseillaient de filer s il ne voulait pas etre traduit en cour martiale, Reacher, intrigue et seduit, pousse enfi n la porte du bureau de celle dont il ne connait pourtant que la voix, le major Susan Turner. Et la, surprise: il tombe sur un commandant Morgan qui l informe que -le major Susan Turner n est plus la-. Et qu il est, lui, accuse d avoir tue un denomme Rodriguez il y a seize ans de ca.Pendant ce temps, un certain -Romeo- appelle un certain -Juliet- pour suivre pas a pas les faits et gestes de Reacher. Ils savent qu il va tout faire pour retrouver Susan Turner.Reacher n a certes peur de rien et arrive toujours a ses fins, mais quand les mauvaises nouvelles se multiplient.

Never go back (Retour interdit) (Jack Reacher #18)

Jack Reacher is back! The utterly addictive ( The New York Times ) series continues as the acclaimed #1 bestselling author Lee Child teams up with his brother, Andrew Child, fellow thriller writer extraordinaire.   As always, Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. One morning he ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee.  But theres nothing pleasant about the place.  In broad daylight Reacher spots a hapless soul walking into an ambush. It was four against one . . . so Reacher intervenes, with his own trademark brand of conflict resolution.  The man he saves is Rusty Rutherford, an unassuming IT manager, recently fired after a cyberattack locked up the towns data, records, information . . . and secrets. Rutherford wants to stay put, look innocent, and clear his name.  Reacher is intrigued. Theres more to the story. The bad guys who jumped Rutherford are part of something serious and deadly, involving a conspiracy, a cover-up, and murder--all centered on a mousy little guy in a coffee-stained shirt who has no idea what hes up against.  Rule one: if you dont know the trouble youre in, keep Reacher by your side.

The sentinel : a jack reacher novel : 25

The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1  1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look like accidents and dont appear to be connected. Until one body  the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window  generates some unexpected attention.

That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who promptly calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is assigned as the Army''s representative.

Reacher may be an exceptional soldier, but sweeping other people''s secrets under the carpet isn''t part of his skill set. As he races to discover the link between these victims, and who killed them, he must navigate around the ulterior motives of his new ''partners''. And all while moving into the sight line of some of the most dangerous people he has ever encountered.

His mission is to uncover the truth. The question is: will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way . . . or his way?

THE SECRET - JACK REACHER 28

In a Chicago suburb, a dentist is met in his office parking lot by three men and ordered into the trunk of his Lexus. On a downtown sidewalk, Jack Reacher and an unknown woman are abducted in broad daylight by two men - practiced and confident - who stop them at gunpoint and hustle them into the same sedan. Then Reacher and the woman are switched into a second vehicle and hauled away, leaving the dentist bound and gagged inside his car with the woman's abandoned possessions, two gallons of gasoline. . . and a burning match. The FBI is desperate to rescue the woman, a Special Agent from the Chicago office, because the FBI always - always - takes care of its own, and because this woman is not just another agent. Reacher and the woman join forces, against seemingly hopeless odds, to outwit their captors and escape. But the FBI thinks Jack is one of the kidnappers - and when they close in, the Bureau snipers will be shooting to kill.

Des gages pour l'enfer (Jack Reacher Series, #3)

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