Night School was the UK's top selling hardback novel of 2016, and the paperback spent 3 weeks on top of the overall Official UK Top 50 list - a record for Lee Child.A Jack Reacher thriller is bought somewhere in the world every 20 seconds, and total sales are over 70 million.Lee Child's books are sold in 96 countries, and translated into 41 languages.Night School is a prequel, set in 1996, after the end of The Enemy and before the start of The Affair.A second Jack Reacher film, based on
Never Go Back, released in Autumn 2016, starring Tom Cruise‘The
strongest brand in publishing’
Forbes; ‘The
most commanding brand in fiction now.’
Evening Standard; ‘Ridiculously addictive’ New Statesman ;‘Possibly
the most successful contemporary thriller writer
in the world’ Irish Independent
; ‘Better than literature
’ Prospect; 'I've read all twenty of Lee Child's novels...but I can't wait for the twenty-first.' Malcolm Gladwell
Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies. Lee is the recipient of many awards, most recently Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours.
"I know I say this every year. . .But. Best. Reacher. Ever." (Karin Slaughter)
It's just a voice plucked from the air: 'The American wants a hundred million dollars'.
For what? Who from? It's 1996, and the Soviets are long gone. But now there's a new enemy. In an apartment in Hamburg, a group of smartly-dressed young Saudis are planning something big.
In the morning they gave Reacher a medal, and in the afternoon they sent him back to school.
Jack Reacher is fresh off a secret mission. The Army pats him on the back and sends him to a school with only three students: Reacher, an FBI agent, and a CIA analyst. Their assignment?
To find that American. And what he's selling. And to whom.
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Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Night School is 21st in the series.
And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.26, Better off Dead! ***OUT NOW***
Ever more
gripping...Night School is the closest that Reacher has come to being a secret agent, making this
expertly paced thriller and
addictive combination of spy yarn, detective story and
beat-'em-up fightfest.I know I say this every year...But.
Best. Reacher. Ever.Reacher...
wins all fights,
charms all women and
outsmarts all rivals, friend or foe.What makes Night School the
best of the Reacher novels I've read is that Child has concocted a
brilliant plot...battling to save America, or maybe the entire civilised world, from a terrorist plot that is
original, engrossing and all too believable...
one of the best thrillers you'll read this year.
Dripping with irony and
oozing dread...utterly
gripping...Acute observation reveals "every detail of the glowing scene". Many so-called literary novels lack such
skill.This latest instalment has all the
classic ingredients: a
great setting, a
good villain, and a mystery that draws you in efficiently, escalates
unpredictably, and has a
satisfying resolution.
