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Night School

Jack Reacher 21

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Night School

By: Lee Child
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

It's just a voice plucked from the air: 'The American wants a hundred million dollars'.

For what? Who from? It's 1996, and the Soviets are long gone. But now there's a new enemy. In an apartment in Hamburg, a group of smartly-dressed young Saudis are planning something big.

In the morning they gave Reacher a medal, and in the afternoon they sent him back to school.

Jack Reacher is fresh off a secret mission. The Army pats him on the back and sends him to a school with only three students: Reacher, an FBI agent, and a CIA analyst. Their assignment?

To find that American. And what he's selling. And to whom.

_________

Although the Jack Reacher novels can be listened to in any order, Night School is 21st in the series.

"I know I say this every year. . .But. Best. Reacher. Ever." (Karin Slaughter)

©2016 Lee Child (P)2016 Random House Audiobooks

 Crime Thrillers Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Thriller Crime Fiction

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Critic reviews

Ever more gripping...Night School is the closest that Reacher has come to being a secret agent, making this expertly paced thriller and addictive combination of spy yarn, detective story and beat-'em-up fightfest.
I know I say this every year...But. Best. Reacher. Ever. (Karin Slaughter)
Reacher... wins all fights, charms all women and outsmarts all rivals, friend or foe.What makes Night School the best of the Reacher novels I've read is that Child has concocted a brilliant plot...battling to save America, or maybe the entire civilised world, from a terrorist plot that is original, engrossing and all too believable...one of the best thrillers you'll read this year.
Dripping with irony and oozing dread...utterly gripping...Acute observation reveals "every detail of the glowing scene". Many so-called literary novels lack such skill. (Mark Sanderson)
This latest instalment has all the classic ingredients: a great setting, a good villain, and a mystery that draws you in efficiently, escalates unpredictably, and has a satisfying resolution. (John Lanchester)
Packed with action, violence and powered by a deceptively complex plot - this is typically nail-biting stuff.
Reacher is a former Army M.P. who thinks like a knight but looks like a drifter. He stops to right wrongs...then moves on...There's always more for Mr Child to add to his canon of Reacher...We've heard lots about his strength but little about his physical grace. This is the book in which he eases through a crowd "like a police horse at a riot". (Janet Maslin)
According to Forbes, the Jack Reacher series is "the strongest brand in publishing"...As ever, Child delivers a satisfyingly complex, exciting and well-researched story...no doubt that Reacher #21 will fly off bookshop shelves worldwide.
Rewarding and adrenalin-fuelled.
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A very good book if you cannot sleep!!!!! I love jack reacher but!!!!
I can't get picture of 5ft weakling out of my mind not the 6'5" one

A good book

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I’m sorry, it’s a good Reacher book but this guy reads it like he’s reading a list. Lacking any flow or drama he ruins the story completely. The guy who reads the Grey Man is so much better. It’s ruined this book for me!

This guy can barely read

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Maybe I'm just getting bored with the simplicity of the writing style or maybe I just need more than a hidden plot. I am starting to feel the simplistic quips are repeated and relied upon too much to pad out the story.

The presentation has a struggling under layer of weakness

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Its always nice when a new lee child book is released. I make sure i have a credit for this. This book doesn't disappoint, i found this a very good listen, it kept me ingaged through out. Another top class narration.

A must listen.

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This one certainly kept my interest throughout, but I found the narration difficult. I haven't read the book, but I can't believe that it is written in short sentences of half a dozen words or so..

Another good story

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