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The Affair

Jack Reacher, Book 16

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The Affair

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

Brought to you by Penguin.

Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding.

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

March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Mississippi.

Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy - or is he a soldier?

Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover.

The county sheriff is a former U.S. Marine - and a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Is the Pentagon stonewalling her? Or is she trying not to find the killer?

Set just six months before the opening of Killing Floor, The Affair marks a turning point in Reacher's career.

If he does what the army wants, will he be able to live with himself? And if he doesn't, will the army be able to live with him?

Although the Jack Reacher novels can be listened to in any order, The Affair is 16th in the series.

'There's only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.' Mick Herron

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

©2011 Lee Child (P)2011 Random House Audio

 Crime Thrillers Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Thriller Crime Exciting Military

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Glad to see the unabridged version followed quickly and as always with exellent narration from Jeff Harding who for me is Reacher. I have listened to Jeff many times in various stories and rate his skills highly all round, however he put's the character into Reacher like no other (no disrespect to the other guys who have performed the character, be it Kerry Shale or Dick Hill all of whom I like well enough as narrators). Whilst Lee Child structures the stories in exactly the same way as the last, I am unable not to want the next one, and the next one and always listen to the unabridged as I don't see that you can do justice to it in a 3rd of the time that the abridged versions offer. As always...hooked from the start and usually done within a couple of days!!

Reacher is back

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If you like Jack reacher or even if you don't this book will keep you listening. one of the best of the Jack Reacher books so far. Always at the limits of legality and not always appreciated Jack is a one man legal system. his version of justice is tough!



Lee child has created a character that will live on for a long time, he seems to tap in to the subconscious and takes us to a place we all think we know, small town america. Because he fits his characters and locations so well with peoples mental pictures the stories come alive.





Reading is a little different if you are used to Kerry Shale (who I personally prefer) but still an excellent narration.



This is one of those rare books that seems to have been made better by being read - brilliant!

Jack's back at his powerful best

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This series of books is loved by both my husband and I. Each one is entertaining, amusing and action packed. Reacher is a trouble magnet.

Inventive story. Good characters

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The story has everything you could want from a Jack Reacher novel… an intriguing story, which is brilliantly descriptive, with plenty of humour and suspense plus great characterisation… told by the best narrator for any Lee Child book… I’ve ordered the set! Fantastic!!!

It’s all about the narration… of a great story.

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Another fine read from a craftsman. They say you can take the Reacher series in any order, but in my view, this would be the first. Brilliantly crafted plot and sub plots that leaves you, thumb out, in the late 90's. And brother Joe...

A Reacher is born.

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