Book Preview ELDRIDGE TYLER WAS DRIVING A LONG STRAIGHT TWO–LANE ROAD in Nebraska when his cell phone rang. It was very late in the afternoon. He was taking his granddaughter home after buying her shoes. His truck was a crew-cab Silverado the colour of a day-old newspaper, and the kid was flat on her back … Read more
Book Preview Prologue: A True Story August 30, 1889 The young doctor bid his wife good-bye on the Southsea platform, boarded the 4:15 express for London, and arrived three hours later at Victoria Station. Threading his way through the noise and bustle, he exited the station and flagged down a hansom cab. “The Langham Hotel, … Read more
Book Preview Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on … Read more
Book Preview The Midnight Line: A Jack Reacher Novel Lee Child Random House Publishing Group (2017) Tags: FIC000000 Fiction / General, Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Detective, General FIC000000 Fiction / Generalttt Fictionttt Thrillersttt Suspensettt Action & Adventurettt Mystery & Detectivettt Generalttt Hi, I am Travis McCrea and I am the founder … Read more
Book Preview 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. I chose the southeast option, the main concourse entrance, the … Read more
Book Preview 1 When the knock sounded, Constance Greene stopped playing the Flemish virginal and the library fell silent and tense. She glanced in the direction of Special Agent A. X. L. Pendergast, sitting by a dying fire, wearing thin white gloves, having gone quite still while leafing through an illuminated manuscript, a glass of … Read more
Book Preview 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 … Read more