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Night School

(Jack Reacher 21)

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Night School

By: Lee Child
Narrated by: Kerry Shale
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Jack Reacher teams up with Frances Neagley again in the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling action-packed thriller.

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 read in any order, Night School is 21st in the series.

'I know I say this every year. . .But. Best. Reacher. Ever.' KARIN SLAUGHTER

'Nothing makes for a great weekend quite like quality time with Jack.' LISA GARDNER


Lee Child, No.1 Sunday Times bestseller, November 2016

© Lee Child 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2016

Action & Adventure Crime Thrillers Espionage Modern Detectives Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Police Procedurals Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Thriller Crime Fiction Suspense

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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.
All stars
Most relevant
Love Reacher, But he is starting to be stereotyped. One book is mearly copying the other in respect that his computerlike brain is starting to get a bit boring . Is he never wrong with his calculations?

Lee Child

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The story was enjoyable as usual, characters worked, how ever the narrator didn't do it justice, poor story telling made it a boring experience. Will go back to reading future books myself

Didn't enjoy the audio narration

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always keeps you wanting more and can't wait for next book. Lee child is
a great writer

reacher books never let you down

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I wish it was longer since it was very enjoyable... I heard it three times to make up the difference...

Short or shorter than usual, but sweet

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I can't believe that after 20 books someone decided to change the narrator? Jack Reacher is read by Jeff Harding simple. I was as disappointed with this choice nearly as much as the ridiculous choice of Tom Cruise in the movies

Narrator ruined this book for me

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