This stomach-churning thriller turns back the clock to a younger Reacher, in dogtags. A Reacher who still believes in the service. A Reacher who imposes army discipline. Even if only in his own pragmatic way...

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14 hours and 21 minutes
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Lee Child
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Jeff Harding
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7 March 2013
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English
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Random House Audiobooks
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B086VJD18M
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	14 hours and 21 minutes
Author	Lee Child
Narrator	Jeff Harding
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	07 March 2013
Publisher	Random House Audiobooks
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B086VJD18M
Best Sellers Rank	680 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 45 in Mysteries (Audible Books & Originals) 46 in Suspense 192 in Suspense Thrillers (Books)

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Jonathan Griffiths

The best Jack Reacher ever

Reviewed in Australia on 23 February 2020

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This is the best Jack Reacher I've read - and I've read most of them. Jack is still in the army in this book and has to try to work within the limitations that imposes. It's clever and suspenseful and personal - he has to deal with his dying mother while solving a case that seems to get more and more complex case the deeper he digs. All set against the background of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Absolutely brilliant.

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Razorback 29

Its a very good who-dun-it read that keeps you guessing right along

Reviewed in Australia on 26 April 2015

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This is my first Jack Reacher book as I decided to read them in chronological order rather than in publishing order.
Its a very good who-dun-it read that keeps you guessing right along.
I am not at the end of the book yet but very close and I still have no idea who the killer is.
I have a military background and I love the character Jack Reacher.
I am sure anyone who reads this book will enjoy it and if the other Reacher books are as good as this one then I know I will enjoy them too.

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Frank Hogewind

Jack reaches back in time

Reviewed in Australia on 16 October 2014

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This is a Jack Reacher flash back to his army days. Here he gets reluctantly involved in army politics
and high brass scullduggery. After a suddenly transfer to an unfamiliar post he gets immediately hit with three
suspicious deaths and when he begins his investigations he soon gets stonewalled by his superiors.
Of course Jack doesn't take this lying down and he gets into a real game of cat and mouse,
taking him from East to West, Berlin to Paris and California to discover a massive conspiracy which by exposing it
causes his demotion and forces him to examine his own future in the army.
It is generally a fast moving adventure but it is a pity that it occationally tends to bog down by technical details

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Jon Bowerman

Success is guaranteed with Reacher but some of his best friends don't always make it

Reviewed in Australia on 16 February 2015

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Quite a fast moving yarn. Success is guaranteed with Reacher but some of his best friends don't always make it. Another thing about Reacher is that if you are a baddie then you may well cease to exist. He does not worry about shall I or shan't i. Baddies do not last..

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The Vagabond

Another great Jack Reacher book

Reviewed in Australia on 4 March 2020

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I think you should describe the item more fully. I was a bit disappointed to find it was a small-type edition, hard on aged eyes. Would sooner pay a dollar or so more for larger type face.

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Dryline

Jack does it again.

Reviewed in Australia on 27 January 2019

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Jack does it again, get himself into and out of strife.

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gumster

The enemy

Reviewed in Australia on 20 June 2014

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Another great Reacher adventure !
The whole Reacher series so far have been well written and easily gets the reader involved. Highly recommend.

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Ted Scarlett

Another captivating experience.

Reviewed in Australia on 9 July 2017

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The story line is a bit heavy and to a non military reader, a bit fanciful. Easy and compelling to read.
BUT why in Gods name did you let Tom Cruise be Jack Reacher.
He is NOT Jack Reacher as is portrayed in the books!

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Another excellent read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 March 2019

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I am a big fan of the Jack Reacher stories, in spite of only recently discovering them, and have particularly enjoyed this sojourn back in time to his army career. Every book so far has had an interesting theme, it never feels like reading the same book twice, which I have come across in a couple of prolific authors.
Having said all that, and happily admitting I will continue to look forward to and read Reacher's adventures in order and will recommend them to other avid readers, I do so wish I could have introduced Lee Childs to punctuation such as commas and semi colons and conjunctions; anything other than the constant short sharp sentences. I find the staccato style of writing, e.g. " The night was dark. It had been raining. The ground was wet. It was cold." just so distracting and irritating that I started filling bits in myself!
Many writers also have what you might call signature phrases that appear so regularly you find yourself beginning to count them, but it would be impossible to keep tabs on all the 'I/he/she said nothing's and the I/he/she shrugged'. I visualise a society of people ignoring each other and heaving their shoulders up and down repetitively!😂
Ok, rant from the grammar police over and meant with tongue in cheek and still full of admiration for the stories themselves.

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Mark Dyer

Credible entertainment

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 March 2020

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This flashback to Reacher's Army days afforded Lee Child the opportunity to get stuck into a whole new world of detail, in a good way. I don't know anything about Army organisation or life but it all seemed quite credible to me.

This is more of a whodunnit than many of the other books and it was all the better for doing so. Reacher's self confidence is a large part of his appeal and this tale did not disappoint in that but it was nice to learn of mistakes and miscalculations. Scenes of his personal life were a nice inclusion too.

Of course there were some parts that are always present; coffee, getting frisky, fight scene and a grand finale but it wouldn't be a proper Reacher book without all that.

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Simone Solon

Internecine Warfare

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 May 2021

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Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels are always enjoyable, and this is no exception, but I found the plot especially contrived, and the back and forth of the investigation seemed unnecessarily complex with an outcome that struck me as particularly unconvincing. If it had been the first Jack Reacher novel I read, I might not have gone on to read others, but as it's about the sixteenth I still enjoyed it.

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anthill1956

Reacher had a past.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 April 2019

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I have been reading Jack Reacher starting from book one. This is a little different as it is set in his past, 1990 when Reacher is still an MP and as usual is being harangued and accused by the powers that be. However it is a gripping and exciting read and a great who -dunnit. Very Interesting read when you know where Reacher is now but also stands alone as a good read.
Highly recommended.

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Aremess

"Thank you", Lee Child - brilliant!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 February 2015

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I watched the film "Jack Reacher" before reading any of the books - Had it of been the other way round, I probably wouldn't have watched the film.

I bought "Never Go Back" with "Killing Floor" at half price almost on a whim. I started with "Killing Floor" and am currently on "The Affair" having bought every one of the series and have pre ordered anything not yet in print.

Why? I found that the character was so believable AND readable plus in each of the books I found Lee Child had inserted and described in such absorbing detail, small almost irrelevancies that were as good to read as the main storyline that they became, not just fillers as other authors insert, but real and very readable. I can't praise the series enough - each and every book has really brought back my love of reading - "Thank you", Lee Child - brilliant!!

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