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Wiith Reacher, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child has created “a series that stands in the front rank of modern thrillers” ( The Washington Post ). Everything starts somewhere. . . . For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way... read more
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Summary edit
A prequel to the Jack Reacher series that explains how in 1997 Jack Reacher left the Army.
Characters edit
- Jack Reacher: A 6'5" Army MP in the Criminal Investigation Division sent undercover to monitor an investigation after a woman is killed outside an Army base in northern Mississippi.
- Elizabeth Deveraux: Carter County Sheriff, former Marine MP, beautiful and tough, not intimidated by Reacher
- Colonel John Frazer: Senate Liaison.
- General Leon Garber: Reacher's commanding officer.
- Carlton Riley: U.S. Senator from Missouri; chairman of the Armed Services Committee.
- Reed Riley: U.S. Army Captain; commander of the Army's 75th Ranger Bravo Company.
- Duncan Munro: newly minted MP major.
- Frances Neagley: First Sergeant, United States Army; Reacher's close friend.
- Karla Dixon: major of the 329th; a founding member of the original 110th Special Unit; financial wizard.
- Bruce Lindsay: teenager; younger brother of a murder victim. Ugly and has the ability to join the army
- Pellegrino: A deputy sheriff at the Carter County Sheriff's Department,who is considered to be a bit of an idiot by Sheriff Deveraux.
- Janice May Chapman: A murder victim, who's death initiates Jack Reacher's tour of Carter Crossing and starts a series of events that has Reacher reassessing his world.
- Stan Lowrey: One of Reacher's best friends and confidants
- Kelham: Name of the Army base at the center of the book's plot.
- Hunter Brannan: Add a description of this character.
- Geezer Butler
- Shawna Lindsay: Young woman murdered in Carter's Crossing.
- Janice Chapman
- Emmeline Mcclatchy
- Audrey Shaw: Prints are taking from Janice's house. When those prints are looked into, the detective thinks that the lab mixed up the profiles and gave her the wrong person.
- John James Frazer
- Rosemary Mcclatchy
- James Dyer
- Alice Bouton
- Toussaint
- Paul Evers
- Joe Reacher
- Mr. Clancy
- Buick
- Dr. Merriam
- Jonathan Brannan
- McKinney
- Blind Blake
- Mrs. Lindsay
- Sheriff Deveraux
- Don McQueen
- Victor Goodman
- Stan Reacher
- Josephine Moutier
- Grandpa Moutier
- Laurent Moutier
- Josephine Reacher
- Helen
Quotes edit
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“You ever notice how the folks who talk loudest about small government always seem to live in the states with the biggest subsidies? Small government would kill them dead.”
General Leon Garber -
“There are two things we do very badly when we're undercover. Hair, and shoes. Shoes, you can buy at Goodwill. You can't buy messy hair at a moment's notice.”
General Leon Garber -
“Kids follow their parents into law enforcement far more than most other professions. Except baseball. The son of a pro ballplayer is eight hundred times more likely to make the Majors than some other random kid.”
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“I'm in the army. Which means half my friends are black, and more importantly it means half my bosses are black. I talk to black people all the time, and they talk to me. So don't give me that ghetto shit.”
Jack Reacher -
“Is a Marine. They never stop being Marines even after they leave. It's one of their things.”
Jack Reacher -
“If all the murdered women of Mississippi rose up tonight and marched through town, you'd notice two things. It would be a very long parade, and most of the marchers would be black. Poor black girls have been getting killed here forever. White women with money, not so often.”
Elizabeth Deveraux -
“We're glamorous. We have a great dress uniform. We do great close-order drill. We do great funerals. You know why we do all that? Because Marines are very good at PR. and we get good advice. Our consultants are better than yours, basically.”
Elizabeth Deveraux -
“We're like two alternative versions of the same person. We look alike. He's smarter than me. I get things done better. He's more cerebral, I'm more physical. He was good and I was bad, according to our parents. Like that.”
Jack Reacher -
“Great minds think alike. Or fools never differ.”
Duncan Munro -
“The Pentagon was built because World War Two was coming, and because World War Two was coming it was built without much steel. Steel was needed elsewhere, as always in wartime. Thus the giant building was a monument to the strength and mass of concrete.”
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“The Joint Chiefs think war is over. They're singing along with Yoko Ono. There are big cuts coming. Most of them will fall on the army. Because the Marines have better PR, and because the Navy and the Air Force are a whole different thing altogether.”
General Leon Garber -
“I was thirty-six years old, a citizen of a country I had barely seen, and there were places to go, and there were things to do. There were cities, and there was countryside. There were mountains, and there were valleys. There were rivers. There were museums, and music, and motels, and clubs, and diners, and bars, and buses. there were battlefields and birthplaces, and legends, and roads. There was company if I wanted it, and there was solitude if I didn't.I picked a road at random, and I put one foot on the curb and one in the traffic lane, and I stuck out my thumb.”
Jack Reacher
First Sentence edit
The Pentagon is the world's largest office building, six and a half million square feet, thirty thousand people, more than seventeen miles of corridors, but it was built with just three street doors, each one of them opening into a guarded pedestrian lobby.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 17 of 18 in Jack Reacher. (standard series)
Preceded by Second Son, and followed by A Wanted Man.
This is book 0 of 18 in Jack Reacher (Reading Order). (standard series)
Preceded by The Enemy, and followed by Killing Floor.
This book is in 2011 Published Books. (community list)
This is book 14 of 20 in New York Times Bestsellers - Paperback Mass-Market Fiction (Current). (authoritative list)
Preceded by A Feast for Crows, and followed by The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 27, 2011
ISBN: 978-0385344326
Page Count: 416
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 27, 2011
ISBN: 978-0385344326
Page Count: 416
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3553.H4838 A63 2011
- Dewey: 813.54
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