Night School
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Lee Child
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! “Another timely tour de force . . . The taut thriller is textbook [Lee] Child: fast-paced and topical with a ‘ripped from the headlines’ feel.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune It’s 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he’s off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind. Two other men are in the classroom—an FBI agent and a CIA analyst. Each is a first-rate operator, each is fresh off a big win, and each is wondering what the hell they are doing there. Then they find out: A Jihadist sleeper cell in Hamburg, Germany, has received an unexpected visitor—a Saudi courier, seeking safe haven while waiting to rendezvous with persons unknown. A CIA asset, undercover inside the cell, has overheard the courier whisper a chilling message: “The American wants a hundred million dollars.” For what? And who from? Reacher and his two new friends are told to find the American. Reacher recruits the best soldier he has ever worked with: Sergeant Frances Neagley. Their mission heats up in more ways than one, while always keeping their eyes on the prize: If they don’t get their man, the world will suffer an epic act of terrorism. From Langley to Hamburg, Jalalabad to Kiev, Night School moves like a bullet through a treacherous landscape of double crosses, faked identities, and new and terrible enemies, as Reacher maneuvers inside the game and outside the law.
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Author
Lee Child
Pages
496
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published Date
2016-11-07
ISBN
080417881X 9780804178815
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"I had begun to think that the Jack Reacher series might have run out of ideas but this novel, 21st in the collection, upended my expectations. It is a thrilling story about Reacher back in the Army helping to solve a terrorist network from getting its hands on a game-changing McGuffin. What the McGuffin turns out to be is no surprise and could be guessed early on. However, the chase to figure out who, what and when will keep you flipping the pages. It is reminiscent of The Fourth Protocol which is my favorite modern spy thriller. Child’s prose is very fluid and rarely betrays the fact that he is a Brit writing about a very American character. He also loves to write phrases and sentences that are repeated or slightly altered to emphasize a thought process similar to what Ludlum did in The Bourne Identity. Having come this far in reading nearly two dozen of his novels, I feel refreshed to finish the rest of the Reacher series (or at least be fully up to date for the next one."