Showing Books By Author : Lee Child

Persuader

The Affair

March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, 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 doesn't she really want to find the killer? The adrenaline-pumping, high-voltage action in The Affair is set just six months before the opening of Killing Floor, and it 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? Is this his last case in uniform?

Nothing To Lose

होप’ आणि ‘डिस्पेअर’च्यामध्ये जी सीमारेषा होती, ती खरोखरच रस्त्याच्यामध्ये एक रेषाच होती. एका गावाचा रस्ता संपून दुसNया गावाचा जिथे सुरू होतो, तिथे ती सीमारेषा तयार झाली होती. ‘होप’ म्हणजे ‘आशा’ तर ‘डिस्पेअर’ म्हणजे ‘निराशा.’ जॅक रीचरला कोणतेही वाहन न मिळाल्यामुळे त्याला चालत जावे लागते, फक्त एक कप कॉफी साठी. पण त्याला रेस्टॉरंटमध्ये आलेल्या चौकडीमार्पÂत जाळ्यात अडकवले जाते. चूक... चूक... चूक... ते चुकीच्या माणसाला धरतात. जॅक रीचर हा त्याच्या क्षेत्रात मोठा असतो कामधंदा नसलेला, कायमस्वरूपी पत्ता नसलेला, सामानसुमान नसलेला फक्त मनस्वी जिज्ञासू. भटकेपणाचा आरोप ठेवून त्याला गावातून हद्दपार केले जाते. अशी कोणती गुपितं आहेत की जी स्थानिक प्रशासनाने दडवून ठेवली आहेत? मिलिटरीतून निवृत्त झालेला अतिशय कठोर वृत्तीचा जॅक रीचर हे नाजूक धागे पकडून अमेरिकेच्या सर्वात मोठ्या प्रतिष्ठा धुळीला मिळविणा-या धक्कादायक आणि गूढ प्रकरणाचे कारस्थान उकलण्यासाठी सज्ज होतो. कारण काहीही झालं तरी जॅक रीचरला काहीच गमवावं लागणार नव्हतं. एक रहस्यमय थरारकथा म्हणून या पुस्तकाकडे बघता बघता त्या वाटेने सुरू झालेला प्रवास देशभक्ती, कडवे धर्मवेड अशा अनेक भावनांपाशी, आग्रहांपाशी येऊन थांबतो. कोणतीही गोष्ट जेव्हा अतिरेकाकडे झुकते तेव्हा ती दुराग्रहामध्ये रूपांतरित होते. या दुराग्रहांचे, माथेफिरू धर्मवेडाचे जे दर्शन या पुस्तकात घडते ते भयचकित करणारे आहे. त्यामुळे हे पुस्तक केवळ एक रहस्यमय थरारकथा राहात नाही; तर ते मानवी प्रवृत्तींना आव्हान देत राहते.

61 Hours

GET READY FOR THE MOST EXCITING COUNTDOWN OF YOUR LIFE HOUR SIXTY-ONE Icy winter in South Dakota. A bus skids and crashes in a gathering storm.On the back seat: Jack Reacher, hitching a ride to nowhere. HOUR THIRTY-ONE One brave woman is standing up for justice. If she’s going to live to testify, she’ll need help from a man like Reacher. Because there’s a killer coming for her. HOUR ZERO Has Reacher finally met his match? He doesn't want to put the world to rights. He just doesn’t like people who put it to wrongs.

One Shot

सहा शॉट्स. पाच ठार. काही तासांत बिनतोड पुराव्याच्या आधारावर गुन्हेगाराला अटक, पण तो तोंडातून अक्षर काढत नाही. शेवटी खूप प्रयत्नांनंतर तो बोलतो, "तुम्ही चुकीच्या माणसाला पकडले आहे... माझ्यासाठी जॅक रीचरला बोलवा." जॅक रीचरचा इतरांना शोध घेता येत नसला तरी टी.व्ही.वरच्या बातम्या बघून तो यायला निघालेलाच असतो. त्याची खात्री असते की काही तरी घोटाळा आहे. गुन्हेगार लष्करातला नेमबाज असताना एक शॉट चुकलाच कसा ? आणि शहरात पोहोचल्यावर रीचरच्या लक्षात येते की त्याचे या शहरातले अस्तित्व कुणाला तरी खुपते आहे. रीचर तेरा वर्षे मिलिटरी पोलीस असतो. तपास करण्यात, माग काढण्यात तरबेज. त्याला भानगडीत अडकवण्यासाठी निरपराध व्यक्तीचा खून करण्यापर्यंत मजल गेल्यावर, संतापलेला रीचर बचाव पक्षाच्या तरुण आणि सुंदर अशा वकिलाला घेऊन त्यांच्यामागे लागतो. त्याला माहीत असते की खरा गुन्हेगार शोधायचा तर तेवढेच कावेबाज आणि निर्दय व्हायला हवे. प्रत्येक पावलाला गोळीचे उत्तर गोळीनेच द्यायला हवे.

Gone Tomorrow

Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers.

Tripwire

Digging swimming pools by hand in Key West, Florida, Jack Reacher is as tanned and as fit as he's ever been. A local girl says he looks like a condom filled with walnuts. Being invisible has become a habit. He doesn't want to be found. So when a private detective comes nosing around and asking questions, Reacher is not pleased. Especially when he later finds the guy dead. With his fingertips sliced off. Why was he so determined to find him? What does the vicious Wall Street honcho Hook Hobie have to do with it? And what about the reappearance of a woman from Reacher's own troubled past?

Killing Floor

Margrave is a no-account little town in Georgia. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles in the rain, just passing through. An arbitrary decision, a tribute to a guitar player who died there decades before. But Margrave has just had its first homicide in thirty years. And Reacher is the only stranger in town. So the murder is pinned on him. As nasty secrets leak out and the body count mounts, only one thing is for sure: They picked the wrong guy to take the fall. Killing Floor introduces Jack Reacher, the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode. Trained to think fast and act faster, with an eye for the women, he is truly every thinking reader's perfect action hero.

Bad Luck And Trouble

The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher's drifter life in a practical way. In addition to his folding toothbrush, he now needs to carry photo ID to get around. Yet he is still as close to untraceable as a human being in America can get.So when a member of his old Army unit manages to get a message to him, he knows it has to be deadly serious. The Special Investigators always watched each other's backs. Now Reacher must put old unit back together. Someone has killed one of them, and he can't let that go.

The Enemy

Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier’s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army’s brightest stars. But in every cop’s life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.New Year’s Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina “hot-sheets” motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. But this situation can’t be controlled. Within hours the general’s wife is murdered hundreds of miles away. Then the dominoes really start to fall.Two Special Forces soldiers—the toughest of the tough—are taken down, one at a time. Top military commanders are moved from place to place in a bizarre game of chess. And somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Jack Reacher—an ordinarily untouchable investigator for the 110th Special Unit—is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have.But Reacher won’t quit. He’s fighting a new kind of war. And he’s taking a young female lieutenant with him on a deadly hunt that leads them from the ragged edges of a rural army post to the winding streets of Paris to a confrontation with an enemy he didn’t know he had. With his French-born mother dying—and divulging to her son one last, stunning secret—Reacher is forced to question everything he once believed…about his family, his career, his loyalties—and himself. Because this soldier’s son is on his way into the darkness, where he finds a tangled drama of desperate desires and violent death—and a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.

The Hard Way

In Lee Child's astonishing new thriller, ex, military cop Reacher sees more than most people would...and because of that, he's thrust into an explosive situation that's about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth- and save two innocent lives- is to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way.... Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money. And Edward Lane, the man who paid it, will pay even more to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any amount of money and any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And then he’ll turn Jack Reacher loose with a vengeance—because Reacher is the best man hunter in the world.On the trail of a vicious kidnapper, Reacher is learning the chilling secrets of his employer’s past…and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He’s beginning to realize that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: he’s already in way too deep to stop now.