One Shot cover art

One Shot

Jack Reacher, Book 9

Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

One Shot

By: Lee Child
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding.

**NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON**

Six shots. Five dead.

A heartland city thrown into terror. But within hours the cops have it solved. A slam-dunk case. Apart from one thing. The accused gunman refuses to talk except for a single phrase:

Get Jack Reacher for me.

Reacher lives off the grid. He's not looking for trouble. But sometimes trouble looks for him. What could connect the noble Reacher to this psychopathic killer?

_________

Although the Jack Reacher can be listened to in any order, One Shot is the 9th in the series.

‘Jeff Harding’s [...] narration captures Reacher’s character perfectly [...] you have to savour every minute.’ The Sunday Times

© Lee Child 2005 (P) Penguin Audio 2009

Crime Thrillers Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction

Listeners also enjoyed...

The Hero cover art
The Equalizer cover art
Spider Shepherd: SAS cover art
The Gray Man cover art
The Sam Pope Series: Books 1-3 cover art
The Black Echo: Harry Bosch Series, Book 1 cover art
Straight Shot cover art
The Coldest Case: A Black Book Audio Drama cover art
American Sniper cover art
March Upcountry cover art
Battle Spire: A Crafting LitRPG Book cover art
First to Kill cover art
Gone Forever cover art
American Assassin cover art

Critic reviews

'Lee Child is often mistaken for a US writer, so skilfully and enthusiastically has he embraced the idiom of the American thriller ... One of the genre's finest practitioners.'
'The Jack Reacher series of thrillers...are all hugely exciting, and knowledgeable about weapons and technology. They exude a powerful sense of right and wrong. We've seen him...as a righter of wrongs and always as God's gift to women.'
'Child's strengths are fast-moving dialogue and gripping action sequences ... The excitement lasts from the first to the final page.'
'Reacher sees justice done while kicking commendable amounts of ass ... Intricate plotting makes for an engrossing read.'
'First-rate thriller, with the imperturbable Reacher meting out his brand of justice to the villains.'
'Hot, indomitable...pure, escapist gold.'
All stars
Most relevant
This was the first Jack Reacher novel I heard and I have now listened again and it's just as good. The plot is as enthralling as all Lee Childs work. Reacher is only after one thing the truth! even if he cant stand the guy he's helping the truth is more important. You will be kept guessing right to the end but with Lee Child that is never frustrating just enthralling.



If you are a Jack Reacher fan you will love it. If you haven't heard a Jack Reacher story yet this is a great introduction, you will definitely download another!



Absolutely brilliant - Classic Reacher

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Great book with a good pace and exciting from start to finish. Each chapter ends with irritating music that ruins the atmosphere, but other than that this was great.

Great Story, crazy music breaks.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Excellent product excellent narrative. Well worth listening to. That is the second time I have listened to this book. I think that I have listened to all of the books twice now. Very sad...
Thanks Jeff

Brilliant

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

I really like the Reacher novels and have them audible and in paperback. One Shot left me in a quandary to be honest. We all know Reacher is a bit of a psychopath but I felt that the barriers were a bit further down than usual in this one. Admittedly is it mainly at the end portion of the book that this shows. If you have listened to The Enemy you may find this a little tame. However on the whole I liked the story line (others have described it better than I could) and as always the reading is exceptional (no idea what they are going to do when Jeff Harding decides to retire-Kerry Shale does well with the short stories so he is an option I guess). I do like the way that the plot twists a bit when you least expect it - so all in all vintage Childs.

overall a good listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

another corker of a story and much better than the film. although the film wasnt bad and made me check out the reacher books this was a much better story

great stuff

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

See more reviews