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  • The Midnight Line

  • Jack Reacher, Book 22
  • By: Lee Child
  • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
  • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (3,322 ratings)
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The Midnight Line

By: Lee Child
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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Summary

Jack Reacher takes an aimless stroll past a pawn shop in a small Midwestern town. In the window he sees a West Point class ring from 2005. It's tiny. It's a woman cadet's graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up? Reacher's a West Pointer, too, and he knows what she went through to get it.

Reacher tracks the ring back to its owner, step by step, down a criminal trail leading west. Like Big Foot come out of the forest, he arrives in the deserted wilds of Wyoming. All he wants is to find the woman. If she's OK, he'll walk away. If she's not...he'll stop at nothing.

He's still shaken by the recent horrors of Make Me, and now The Midnight Line sees him set on a raw and elemental quest for simple justice. Best advice: don't get in his way.

©2017 Lee Child (P)2017 Random House Audiobooks

Critic reviews

"Each year Lee Child comes up with another Reacher. Each year I lap it up. Love it... Best one for a while... there is something subversive as well as page-turning.... The sentences are short, but that doesn't mean the thinking is small.... I don't know another author so skilled at making me turn the page, at putting me in the thick of it all." ( The Times)
"I just read the new Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child…. It is as good as they always are. I read every single one." (Malcolm Gladwell)
"Addictive... Child's trademark staccato-style delivers all-action excitement as well as a sombre message about the hypocrisy of the US war on drugs." ( Metro)

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As good as ever.

The narrator was good. He voiced Reacher as I heard him in the books. great.

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Reacher, a man for all occasions

I love the Jack Reacher series but was worried that it had lost its way, this story however brings the series back on track!

We see a different side to Reacher and more about him than his fists.

A good read, i look forward to the next one.

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it's the master on top still.

a reacher novel at his best. I hate waiting for his next new story but there always worth that agony.
wish he could write one a week.

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Good story, irritating flow to the narrative

The story itself is good. Interesting, but guessable in places. Good twists though. The narrators tone is very annoying. Very repetitive and up and down. You get used to it, but it took me a good few chapters to block it out. In fact I almost stopped listening because of it.

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Another masterful work

Major Jack Reacher retired, returns for the latest instalment. Once again he becomes involved with the US Army, beginning with finding a West Point ring in a Pawn Shop. Tracing the rings owner becomes his latest mission. For fans of the series this is the usual fayre. Well worth the time to listen or read.

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So badly read....

Classic Jack Reacher but read in a monotone boring annoying American voice. Read and do not listen!

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Great again

By now the fans know what to expect a brilliant story well read in character

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Slow and appeared to be laboured.

I'm a huge fan of author and the main character. But this one didn't really grab me. Still enjoyed it but it has been a hard slog getting through it.

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, typical reacher but still great

loved it, you know what your are getting with Lee Child and he does not disappoint

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Quite Random

If you could sum up The Midnight Line in three words, what would they be?

A random rant

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I couldn't emotionally connect to the Book, it was quite a bizarre story line from Lee Child, i don't know what to make of it

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Its not a bad book but not what you quite expect from Jack Reacher series. It seems to be written in a hurry with random thoughts and ideas about where the journey takes him. It has an abrupt ending as well. Not the best.

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