A Wanted Man

When you''''re as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly-set, freshly-busted nose, patched with silver duct tape - it isn''''t easy to hitch a ride. But Reacher has some unfinished business in Virginia, so he doesn''''t quit. And at last, he''''s picked up by three strangers - two men and a woman. But within minutes it becomes clear they''''re all lying about everything - and then they run into a police roadblock on the highway. 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? With his signature Swiss-watch plotting and heart-thumping suspense, A Wanted Man shows Lee Child at his sublimely skilful best. Lee Child is one of the world''''s leading thriller writers. His novels consistently achieve the number one slot in hardback and paperback on bestsellers lists on both sides of the Atlantic, and are translated into over forty languages. His debut novel, Killing Floor, was written after he was made redundant from his television job in Manchester, and introduced his much-admired maverick hero, the former military cop Jack Reacher.He won the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2011 prize with 61 Hours. Born in Coventry, he now lives in America.