Zusatztext Swift and brutal. The New York Times Reacher is one of the more interesting suspense heroes to come along in a while. San Antonio Express News A superior series. The Washington Post Book World A great read. St. Petersburg Times Spectacular...muscular! energetic prose and pell-mell pacing. The Seattle Times Jack Reacher! the wandering folk hero of Child's superb line of thrillers faces a baffling puzzle in his latest adventurea brain-teasing puzzle that gets put together piece by fascinating piece...and a central character with Robin Hood-like integrity and an engagingly eccentric approach to life. Publishers Weekly Deeply satisfying...plan to stay up long past bedtime and do some serious hyperventilating toward the end. Kirkus Reviews This fourth Reacher thriller is easily the best. The plot is a masterpiece. Reacher belongs at the same table withParker's Spenser. Booklist With numerous plot twists and turns! Child puts Reacher through his paces brilliantly! arriving at an unusual solution. Highly recommended. Library Journal Informationen zum Autor LEE CHILD is a #1 bestselling author worldwide. His debut novel, Killing Floor , won two awards for best first mystery and was nominated for two more. Foreign rights in the Jack Reacher series have been sold in ninety-five countries. Child, a native of England, is a former television director. He lives in New York City, where he is at work on his next Jack Reacher thriller. Klappentext Jack Reacher races to solve the perfect crime in the fourth novel in Lee Child's New York Times bestselling series. Across the country, women are being murdered, victims of a disciplined and clever killer who leaves no trace evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to an apparent motive. They are, truly, perfect crimes. In fact, there's only one thing that links the victims. Each one of the women knew Jack Reacher-and it's got him running blind. "Swift and brutal."--"The New York Times " "Reacher is one of the more interesting suspense heroes to come along in a while." --"San Antonio Express News " "A superior series."--"The Washington Post Book World " "A great read."--"St. Petersburg Times " "Spectacular...muscular, energetic prose and pell-mell pacing."--"The Seattle Times" "Jack Reacher, the wandering folk hero of Child's superb line of thrillers faces a baffling puzzle in his latest adventure...a brain-teasing puzzle that gets put together piece by fascinating piece...and a central character with Robin Hood-like integrity and an engagingly eccentric approach to life."--"Publishers Weekly " "Deeply satisfying ... plan to stay up long past bedtime and do some serious hyperventilating toward the end."--"Kirkus Reviews " "This fourth Reacher thriller is easily the best. The plot is a masterpiece. Reacher belongs at the same table with...Parker's Spenser."--"Booklist " "With numerous plot twists and turns, Child puts Reacher through his paces brilliantly, arriving at an unusual solution. Highly recommended."--"Library Journal " Leseprobe 1 PEOPLE SAY THAT knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Suppose you knew the winning numbers for the lottery? All of them? Not guessed them, not dreamed them, but really knew them? What would you do? You would run to the store. You would mark those numbers on the play card. And you would win. Same for the stock market. Suppose you really knew what was going to go way up? You're not talking about a hunch or a gut feeling. You're not talking about a trend or a percentage game or a whisper or a tip. You're talking about knowledge. Real, hard knowledge. Suppose you had it? What would you do? You would call your broker. You would buy. Then la...

“Swift and brutal.”—The New York Times

“Reacher is one of the more interesting suspense heroes to come along in a while.”—San Antonio Express News

“A superior series.”—The Washington Post Book World

“A great read.”—St. Petersburg Times

“Spectacular...muscular, energetic prose and pell-mell pacing.”—The Seattle Times

“Jack Reacher, the wandering folk hero of Child’s superb line of thrillers faces a baffling puzzle in his latest adventure…a brain-teasing puzzle that gets put together piece by fascinating piece...and a central character with Robin Hood-like integrity and an engagingly eccentric approach to life.”—Publishers Weekly

“Deeply satisfying...plan to stay up long past bedtime and do some serious hyperventilating toward the end.”—Kirkus Reviews

“This fourth Reacher thriller is easily the best. The plot is a masterpiece. Reacher belongs at the same table with…Parker’s Spenser.”—Booklist

“With numerous plot twists and turns, Child puts Reacher through his paces brilliantly, arriving at an unusual solution. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal

Autorentext

LEE CHILD is a #1 bestselling author worldwide. His debut novel, Killing Floor, won two awards for best first mystery and was nominated for two more. Foreign rights in the Jack Reacher series have been sold in ninety-five countries. Child, a native of England, is a former television director. He lives in New York City, where he is at work on his next Jack Reacher thriller.

Klappentext

Jack Reacher races to solve the perfect crime in the fourth novel in Lee Child's New York Times bestselling series.

Across the country, women are being murdered, victims of a disciplined and clever killer who leaves no trace evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to an apparent motive. They are, truly, perfect crimes. In fact, there's only one thing that links the victims. Each one of the women knew Jack Reacher-and it's got him running blind.

Leseprobe
1
PEOPLE SAY THAT knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Suppose you knew the winning numbers for the lottery? All of them? Not guessed them, not dreamed them, but really knew them? What would you do? You would run to the store. You would mark those numbers on the play card. And you would win.
Same for the stock market. Suppose you really knew what was going to go way up? You’re not talking about a hunch or a gut feeling. You’re not talking about a trend or a percentage game or a whisper or a tip. You’re talking about knowledge. Real, hard knowledge. Suppose you had it? What would you do? You would call your broker. You would buy. Then later you’d sell, and you’d be rich.
Same for basketball, same for the horses, whatever. Football, hockey, next year’s World Series, any kind of sports at all, if you could predict the future, you’d be home free. No question. Same for the Oscars, same for the Nobel prize, same for the first snowfall of winter. Same for anything.
Same for killing people.
Suppose you wanted to kill people. You would need to know ahead of time how to do it. That part is not too difficult. There are many ways. Some of them are better than others. Most of them have drawbacks. So you use what knowledge you’ve got, and you invent a new way. You think, and you think, and you think, and you come up with the perfect method.
You pay a lot of attention to the setup. Because the perfect method is not an easy method, and careful preparation is very important. But that stuff is meat and potatoes to you. You have no problem with careful preparation. No problem at all. How could you, with your intelligence? After all your training?
*You know the big problems will come afterward. How do you make sure you get away with it? You use your knowledge. You know more than most people about how the cops work. You’ve seen them on duty, many times, sometimes close-up. You know what they look for. So you don&rsqu…