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The Midnight Line

Jack Reacher, Book 22

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Brought to you by Penguin.

Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding.

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

Jack Reacher is having a bad day.

It would be a dumb idea to make it worse.
Reacher sees a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window. It's tiny. It's a woman cadet's graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up? Reacher was a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it.

All he wants is to find the woman.

He'll have to go through bikers, cops, crooks, and low-life muscle.
If she's ok, he'll walk away. If she's not ... he'll stop at nothing.

Best advice: stay out of his way.

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Although the Jack Reacher novels can be listened to in any order, The Midnight Line follows on directly from the end of Make Me.


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

©2017 Lee Child (P)2017 Random House Audiobooks

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Critic reviews

Marks a real departure for Lee Child, who homes in on two hot issues (US military veterans with mental or physical scars, and a related social plague currently in the news) ...Alongside this topicality is a poignancy that was lacking in earlier books. (John Dugdale)
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.
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.
An eccentric but winning blend of the serious and the playful, this modern western resembles a collaboration between the Coen brothers and Karl Ove Knausgaard.
The one that breaks your heart...Reacher has a reputation to live up to: drifter, loner, knuckles the size of walnuts, etc...[ yet has] more emotional heft than anything Child has written before. (Janet Maslin)
A timely, affecting, suspenseful and morally complex thriller. In fact, it’s one of the best thrillers I’ve read this year.
Lee Child is showing no sign of flagging with this latest outing....You'll read this one in a single evening.
A contemporary version of the knight in shining armour: to Lee Child's many readers, Reacher is a mythic figure.
Lee Child is the master of plotting...full of action and adventure.. This is Child's most emotional book to date. There are issues concerning family loyalty,wounded veterans, disfigurement, the opioid explosion, and the habits of drug dealers...This is not just a good story; it is a story with a purpose and a message.
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I admit that I have listened to the whole series and I love Jeff Harding as a narrator hes like liquid chocolate for the ears. This was another good romp for reacher fans, need I say more.

I just love the Reacher/Jeff Harding combination

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Great fun as always. Not the best but still very enjoyable. I'm looking forward to the next

Another Reacher stood as ever

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Having read a lot of (not all) other Jack Reacher books I was really looking forward to this one so I started listening, and I kept on and on and on, thinking something exciting was going to happen and apart from one fight with some bikers nothing really happened. It was a depressing outcome with no cohesive ending.

Also the narrator, although a very fitting gritty tone to his voice kept repeating the same rising and falling rhythm of sentences which became annoying.

Overall I think Mr Child has padded this thin storyline with unnecessary boring words and sentences and it’s certainly not up to the standards of previous JR shenanigans !!

Lack lustre!

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The book was good had a nice story to it worth listening to kept you on your toes

Good book

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Classic Reacher that you hope will never end, Jeff Harding is Reachers voice for me, long may he be the narrator of choice for Lee Child's hero!

Once again, a classic Jack Reacher story

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