Reacher part sur les traces de son père. Debout au bord d'une route, le pouce levé, Jack Reacher a la ferme intention de traverser les États-Unis en stop. Mais dans les bois de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, un panneau lui indique une ville au nom familier : Laconia, où son père est né. Il décide de faire le détour et découvre qu'aucun Reacher n'y a jamais vécu. Lui a-t-on menti ?Non loin de là, un couple de jeunes Canadiens tombe en panne et échoue dans un motel. Les propriétaires promettent de les aider à repartir. Mais ces derniers disent-ils toute la vérité ?Les chemins de tous ces personnages vont se croiser dans de terribles circonstances, car la mort rôde dans les parages. et Reacher, fidèle à lui-même, va devoir s'en mêler.

Les Temps du passé

Nouvelle inedite suivie, en exclusivite, d'un extrait de Retour Interdit, la nouveaute a paraitre en octobre 2016.New York, 13juillet 1977. Une chaleur etouffante pese sur la ville, deja sous pression: un tueur en serie y terrorise la population. Jack Reacher, alors jeune marine de seize ans tout juste rentre de Coree du Sud, se rend a West Point pour revoir son frere quand, en pleine rue, il surprend un homme en train de gifler une femme. Il s'interpose et, bien que le couple lui conseille de ne pas s'en meler, il s'en prend au type qui, ridiculise, bat en retraite. Ce que Reacher ne sait pas, c'est que ce mari, Croselli, est un grand patron de la mafia. Et sa femme, une inspectrice du FBI.L'incident clos, Reacher continue sa route quand soudain, la ville se retrouve plongee dans le noir: le reseau electrique n'a pas resiste a la canicule. Et pour parfaire le programme de sa soiree, Reacher se retrouve a devoir aider une jeune femme qui semble avoir de serieux ennuis.Dire que les peripeties ne font que commencer serait un euphemisme...Dans cette nouvelle, Reacher n'a certes que seize ans, mais il presente deja toutes les caracteristiques du fantastique chevalier blanc qu'il va devenir grace au talent de son createur, Lee Child."

Coup de Chaud Sur La Ville

Assis à la terrasse d'un café de New York, l'ancien flic de la police militaire américaine Jack Reacher regarde un type traverser la rue, monter dans une Mercedes et disparaître. Rien que de très banal. Sauf que le coffre de la voiture contient un million de dollars de rançon. Edward Lane, l'homme qui l'a versée, est prêt à payer la même somme à celui qui l'aidera à retrouver sa femme et sa belle-fille kidnappées et, à cet effet, il contacte Reacher. Qui accepte la mission: il est toujours prêt à donner un coup de main en cas de besoin et il n'y a pas meilleur que lui dans ce genre de travail. Mais, à force de se renseigner sur ce qui a pu déclencher ce kidnapping, Reacher comprend que les apparences sont trompeuses: Lane dirige une milice privée engagée dans des coups tordus et lui cache certaines choses qui risquent de faire capoter sa mission. Néanmoins, il a donné sa parole et devra aller jusqu'au bout, au risque d'y perdre la vie.

Sans douceur excessive

THE MIDNIGHT LINE - JACK REACHER 22

WINNER OF THE HRF KEATING AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOK 2018An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an empire, her thrillers helped save the world. With a foreword by Lee Child.

 When Ian Fleming dismissed his books in a 1956 letter to Raymond Chandler as 'straight pillow fantasies of the bang-bang, kiss-kiss variety' he was being typically immodest. In three short years, his James Bond novels were already spearheading a boom in thriller fiction that would dominate the bestseller lists, not just in Britain, but internationally.

 The decade following World War II had seen Britain lose an Empire, demoted in terms of global power and status and economically crippled by debt; yet its fictional spies, secret agents, soldiers, sailors and even (occasionally) journalists were now saving the world on a regular basis.

 From Ian Fleming and Alistair MacLean in the 1950s through Desmond Bagley, Dick Francis, Len Deighton and John Le Carré in the 1960s, to Frederick Forsyth and Jack Higgins in the 1970s.

 Many have been labelled 'boys' books' written by men who probably never grew up but, as award-winning writer and critic Mike Ripley recounts, the thrillers of this period provided the reader with thrills, adventure and escapism, usually in exotic settings, or as today's leading thriller writer Lee Child puts it in his Foreword: 'the thrill of immersion in a fast and gaudy world.'

 In Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Ripley examines the rise of the thriller from the austere 1950s through the boom time of the Swinging Sixties and early 1970s, examining some 150 British authors (plus a few notable South Africans). Drawing upon conversations with many of the authors mentioned in the book, he shows how British writers, working very much in the shadow of World War II, came to dominate the field of adventure thrillers and the two types of spy story - spy fantasy (as epitomised by Ian Fleming's James Bond) and the more realistic spy fiction created by Deighton, Le Carré and Ted Allbeury, plus the many variations (and imitators) in between.

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang - The Boom in British Thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed

Les enquêtes de Jack Reacher. Reacher, le justicier au coeur pur et aux réflexes foudroyantes, a mis la main dans un redoutable engrenage. Il est contraint par un chantage du FBI - qui n'hésite pas à adopter les méthodes de la mafia - à démêler une angoissante affaire de meurtres en série, dont il est le premier suspect. En effet, quel est le profil de l'assassin ? Les victimes ? Mode opératoire? Dans cette enquête, l'adversaire n'est jamais où l'on attend. Qui manipule qui ? Reacher n'a que quelques jours devant lui pour stopper la machine à tuer.

Un visiteur pour Ophélie / The Visitor (Jack Reacher, #4)

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

You can leave the army, but the army doesn’t leave you. Not always. Not completely, notes Jack Reacher—and sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled back into service. This time, for the State Department and the CIA.Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light. The bullet was American. The distance between the gunman and the target was exceptional. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? Very few, but John Kott—an American marksman gone bad—is one of them. And after fifteen years in prison, he’s out, unaccounted for, and likely drawing a bead on a G8 summit packed with enough world leaders to tempt any assassin.If anyone can stop Kott, it’s the man who beat him before: Reacher. And though he’d rather work alone, Reacher is teamed with Casey Nice, a rookie analyst who keeps her cool with Zoloft. But they’re facing a rough road, full of ruthless mobsters, Serbian thugs, close calls, double-crosses—and no backup if they’re caught. All the while Reacher can’t stop thinking about the woman he once failed to save. But he won’t let that that happen again. Not this time. Not Nice.Reacher never gets too close. But now a killer is making it personal.

La Cible était française (Une aventure de Jack Reacher t. 18)

The edge-of-your-seat, heart-in-mouth new Jack Reacher thriller for 2020 - his 25th adventure.   No one''s bigger than Jack Reacher.    Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He plans to grab a cup of coffee and move right along. Not going to happen.   The town has been shut down by a cyber attack. At the centre of it all, whether he likes it or not, is Rusty Rutherford. He''s an average IT guy, but he knows more than he thinks.  As the bad guys move in on Rusty, Reacher moves in on them . . .   And now Rusty knows he''s protected, he''s never going to leave the big man''s side.   Reacher might just have to stick around and find out what the hell''s gone wrong . . . and then put it right, like only he can.    ***    ''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

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