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Lee Child is a quiet, undemonstrative man who is phlegmatic about his success in the thriller field. The Enemy will no doubt attract the usual enthusiastic acclaim, and it deserves to. One thing that is guaranteed to please Child is the open-mouthed astonishment of American readers who learn that this writer of the most idiomatic American thrillers (with brilliantly realised US locales) is actually English. But there's never a sense of striving for effects in such taut Child novels as Killing Floor and Die Trying. Child simply delivers the goods, US-style--and The Enemy is no exception. Child's usual protagonist, the tough and resourceful Jack Reacher, is in North Carolina on New Year's Day, 1990. Elsewhere, world-shaking events are underway, such as the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. But Jack's job as a Military Police Duty Officer has him concerned with what initially seem to be less significant happenings: a soldier has been found dead in a sleazy motel and when Jack goes to the house of the soldier (a two-star general) to inform his wife, he finds her also dead. Needless to say, events in another part of the globe are having fatal repercussions in the US, and Reacher is soon up to his neck, with the body count rising. As a glimpse into the early life of Jack Reacher (now securely one of the most admired heroes in contemporary thriller writing), this is meat and drink to the Child aficionado. Child foregrounds characterisation in his pacy narratives, and this eighth outing for Jack has all the adrenalin-producing qualities of its predecessors. --Barry ForshawRead More

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  • Amazon

    Lee Child's new stomach-churning, palm-sweating thriller turns back the clock to Jack Reacher's army days. For the first time we meet a younger Reacher, a Reacher not yet disillusioned with military life. A Reacher with family. A Reacher in dogtags and starched uniform who imposes army discipline, if only in his own pragmatic way.

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    New Year's Day 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down and the Cold War is ending. Jack Reacher is the duty Military Police officer on a base in North Carolina when a soldier's body is discovered in a sleazy motel. Reacher tells the local cop to handle it - it sounds like the guy just had a heart attack. ; But the dead man turns out to have been a general on a top-secret mission. And when Reacher goes to the general's house to break the news he finds a corpse: the General's wife. ; `Lee Child writes a good story twisting it into labyrinthine folds and keeping his readers guessing right to the end. He has obviously done his research' - IRISH TIMES ; 'Lee Child fans will love this prequel to the bestselling Jack Reacher novels. At last Child shares the events that shaped the maverick hero of his last six novels into an ass-kicking irreverent good guy. If you're one of the few people who haven't sampled the sublime thrill of a Child novel this blast from the past is the best place to start' - SCOTTISH DAILY RECORD ; `Dithering is not a factor in Reacher's exploits or in Mr Child's lean dynamic storytelling. Ever.' - NEW YORK TIMES ; 'One of the best writers in this genre. And nobody does it better' - The Sunday Telegraph ; 'The thing about Lee Child's books is that you can't put the damn things down. There's something about his writing that's addictive. The Enemy is no exception. Superb.' - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY ; ;

  • BookDepository

    The Enemy : Paperback : Transworld Publishers Ltd : 9780553815856 : : 01 Apr 2005 : Featuring Jack Reacher, hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise, in his younger days as a Military Policeman in the US Army. New Year's Day, 1990. A soldier is found dead in a sleazy motel bed.

  • Foyles

    Featuring Jack Reacher, hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise, in his younger days as a Military Policeman in the US Army. Jack Reacher is the officer...

  • 0553815857
  • 9780553815856
  • Lee Child
  • 1 April 2005
  • Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 389
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