Better Off Dead
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Lee Child
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • THE BLOCKBUSTER JACK REACHER SERIES THAT INSPIRED TWO MAJOR MOTION PICTURES AND THE STREAMING SERIES REACHERDigging graves had not been part of my plans when I woke up that morning. Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun—until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel. Dead? No, nothing is what it seems. The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who might be mixed up with some dangerous people. Most of them would rather die than betray their terrifying leader, who has burrowed his influence deep into the nearby border town, a backwater that has seen better days. The mysterious Dendoncker rules from the shadows, out of sight and under the radar, keeping his dealings in the dark. He would know the fate of Fenton’s brother. Reacher is good at finding people who don’t want to be found, so he offers to help, despite feeling that Fenton is keeping secrets of her own. But a life hangs in the balance. Maybe more than one. But to bring Dendoncker down will be the riskiest job of Reacher's life. Failure is not an option, because in this kind of game, the loser is always better off dead.
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Author
Lee Child
Pages
336
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published Date
2021-10-26
ISBN
1984818503 9781984818508
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"Good action book"
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Kristie Richardson
"Finishing up the Cartographers right now. Am then going to dive into Jefferson Bass's Body Farm series! ❤️"
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Michelle Kolar
"I'm reading The Seventh Plague by James Rollins."
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Paul Shreve
"A bit of a disappointment. By choosing first-person narrative the authors give up some suspense that comes with knowing what danger is potentially going to happen to the narrator. The first half of the book is a bit of a bore as Reacher stumbles around trying to figure out what is going on. The 2nd half picks up but the machinations of what the villain’s plan is become harder to grasp. Nearing the end of my quest to read all the Reacher novels and it may be time to finish as I have not been overly impressed by the books written in collaboration with his brother."