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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES * Don't miss the hit streaming series Reacher !
The ultimate Jack Reacher experience: a thrilling new novella and eleven previously published stories, together for the first time in one pulse-pounding collection from Lee Child.
No Middle Name begins with "Too Much Time," a brand-new work of short fiction that finds Reacher in a hollowed-out town in Maine, where he witnesses a random bag-snatching but sees much more than a simple crime. "Small Wars" takes readers back to 1989, when Reacher is an MP assigned to solve the brutal murder of a young officer found along an isolated forest road in Georgia--and whose killer may be hiding in plain sight. In "Not a Drill," Reacher tries to take some downtime, but a pleasant hike in Maine turns into a walk on the wild side--and perhaps something far more sinister. "High Heat" time-hops to 1977, when Reacher is a teenager in sweltering New York City during a sudden blackout that awakens the dark side of the city that never sleeps. Okinawa is the setting of "Second Son," which reveals the pivotal moment when young Reacher's sharp "lizard brain" becomes just as important as his muscle. In "Deep Down," Reacher tracks down a spy by matching wits with four formidable females--three of whom are clean, but the fourth may prove fatal. Rounding out the collection are "Guy Walks into a Bar," "James Penney's New Identity," "Everyone Talks," "The Picture of the Lonely Diner," "Maybe They Have a Tradition," and "No Room at the Motel."
No suitcase. No destination. No middle name. No matter how far Reacher travels off the beaten path, trouble always finds him. Feel bad for trouble.
Praise for No Middle Name
"Captivating . . . classic [Lee] Child . . . This volume demonstrates what his fans already know: he's a born storyteller and an astute observer." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Lee Child, like his creation, always knows exactly what he's doing--and he does it well. Time in his company is never wasted." -- Evening Standard
Author Notes
Lee Child is the pen name of Jim Grant, who was born in Coventry, England on October 29, 1954. He attended law school at Sheffield University, worked in the theater, and finally worked as a presentation director for Granada Television. After being laid off in 1995 because of corporate restructuring, he decided to write a book. The Killing Floor won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel and became the first book in the Jack Reacher series. In 2012, the first Jack Reacher film was released starring Tom Cruise. His book's, Worth Dying For and Past Tense, made the bestseller list in 2018.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Bestseller Child's captivating collection includes 12 stories, some of novella length, which cover a lot of Jack Reacher's life, before, during, and after his military career. In "Too Much Time," the one tale not previously published, Reacher witnesses a robbery and deftly halts the thief in small-town Maine. The authorities want a statement, but soon Reacher's charged with "felonious involvement"-a classic Child mash-up of deduction and action. In "Second Son," set in 1974 in Guam, where the Reacher family has just been posted, 13-year-old Jack already knows how to deal with bullies and demonstrates his nascent investigative gifts. In "High Heat," set on the night of the 1977 New York City blackout, teenage Reacher has a date, helps the FBI make a case against a mob boss/drug lord, and provides clues to the identity of serial killer Son of Sam. Though Child (Night School) is at his best in the longer entries, this volume demonstrates what his fans already know: he's a born storyteller and an astute observer. Agent: Darley Anderson, Darley Anderson Literary. (June) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
A bushel of previously uncollected Jack Reacher stories brings the vagabond hero from childhood to hunkhood.Child's (Night School, 2016, etc.) hero, an ex-Army investigator whose travels always put him in the path of someone who needs his help, has shown a durability to match his popularity. The formula barely changes from novel to novel, but there's a pop-culture canniness to it that's irresistible. The fun of Reacher is his mix of Holmes-ian deductive genius, wisecracking insolence, and tough-guy muscle. He can find a cop on the take by witnessing the police response to a staged mugging or reduce a Mafia henchman to a bruised and bloody pile. The stories in this collection feel, at times, almost like fan fictionespecially the one in which a teenage Reacher finds himself wandering through New York City on the night of the 1977 blackout and, before dawn, helps a cop nail a drug kingpin, canoodles with a Sarah Lawrence coed, and delivers the tip that helps catch Son of Sam. But still, there's a kick in seeing the character so fully formed from such a young age in this story and the one in which he's an Army brat dealing with bullies at a new posting. And the short form is refreshing after the misfire of Child's last novel, in which the violence became unpleasant and the tone curdled. No such problem here. And it's encouraging that the novella Too Much Time, which leads into the next Reacher novel, feels like a return to form. These are tasty appetizers that will hopefully lead to a satisfying entree. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
These 12 wildly entertaining short stories confirm what we know about Jack Reacher. He's a former military policeman, and he roams the world by bus, armed with a folding toothbrush, a passport, and an ATM card. He doesn't look like Tom Cruise: he's a slab of a man, with hands like catchers' mitts. He might pulverize you for mentioning it, but he can talk intellectually, as when he discourses on Edward Hopper's Nighthawks. Readers can take Reacher stories as top-line actioners and love the parody-pastiches going on simultaneously, as when he spins Hemingway, who obliquely invented the hard-boiled style: The darkness didn't help. It didn't help at all. Especially delicious are the tributes to that English detective in a deerstalker, as when Reacher identifies the killer as the fellow wearing oversize boots. There's action here, as well as deadpan comedy and a wish-fulfilling hero. Wouldn't you like to hop on a bus leaving town just because you can? Reacher's legion of fans will relish these short takes on their hero's life as they await the next novel.--Crinklaw, Don Copyright 2017 Booklist