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The Secret

Jack Reacher, Book 28

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The Secret

By: Lee Child, Andrew 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**

The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the No.1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.

Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient wakes to find two strangers by his bed.


They show him a list of names and ask a simple but impossible question. Minutes later he falls to his death from his twelfth-floor window - a fall which generates some unexpected attention.

That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher, recently demoted from Major, is assigned as the Army's representative. If he gets a result, great. If not, he's a convenient fall guy.

Reacher may be an exceptional military investigator, but office politics aren't what gets him up in the morning. As he races to identify a cold-blooded killer and uncover a secret that stretches back 23 years, he must navigate around his new partners.

Will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way . . . or his way?


PRAISE FOR THE JACK REACHER SERIES

'
There's only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.' MICK HERRON

'
Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of.' KEN FOLLETT

'
Everyone needs to kick some butt sometimes, even if it's just imaginary.' JOJO MOYES



Although the Jack Reacher novels can be listened to in any order, The Secret is the 28th audiobook in the internationally bestselling series.

The Secret was a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller in October and November 2023.

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

©2023 Andrew Child & Lee Child (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Crime Thrillers Genre Fiction Military Mystery Private Investigators Suspense Thriller & Suspense War & Military Thriller Fiction Crime

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Critic reviews

The Secret is a corker . . . Fast and furious, this is classic Jack Reacher doing what he does best – busting heads and breaking rules to get to the bottom of a conspiracy
A flow to the fight scenes . . . some flashes of humour . . . Welcome back, Jack
If there is a more iconic character in modern fiction than Jack Reacher, I’d like to meet them
Jack Reacher is on good form . . . Cue classic laconic violence
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I really love the Jack Reacher series. This is another nice addition to the series; decent plot with an interesting series of twists. A note to Lee Childs, can we please have more than one per year? I love the series and would love to hear more.

Nice story, clean ending.

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I could not be happier to say how amazing this book was. I have to admit the last two collaborations, in my humble opinion, were… well… utterly disappointing! However this new exciting Reacher adventure is back on top form. I would akin it to “Bad Luck and Trouble”, “Never Go Back”, “Night School” and similar quality reacher tomes.

I return to the Reacher books again and again as they are all so different yet reassuringly familiar. This is one of those good ones that I will return to again, and again, I’m sure:

I know we may only have one more collaboration book between the Childs but I’m hoping Andrew will honour the legacy and keep up this new level of quality after Lee takes a bow and leaves stage left, with our thanks.

A thrilling, Reacher at his best, twisting tale

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This was a good read, interesting characters and helped pass some time in the sunshine.

Good read

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All Reacher stores are decent, and this was OK aswell, but the Narrator wasn't good enough.. He didn't manager to make the story interesting.

OK story, but..

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This one feels a bit more like the titles that got me into Reacher in the first place. After the most recent two titles, this is a welcome return to form. Liked the jump back in time to Reacher 's career in the service.

Good performance from Jeff Harding as always.

Better than the last couple of books

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