Echo Burning
Book 5 of Jack Reacher
Language: English
American Fiction Crime Detective Detective and mystery stories Fiction Fiction - Mystery General Jack (Fictitious character) Mystery Mystery & Detective - General Mystery & Detectives Mystery Fiction Private Investigators Private investigators - Texas Reacher Suspense Suspense Fiction Texas Thriller Thrillers
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Published: Nov 1, 2005
Description:
"In Echo Burning, Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas and getting desperate for a ride. At six-five, close to two hundred fifty pounds, scruffy and unshaven, he is nobody's idea of a low-risk passenger." "But luck arrives in a huge white Cadillac with its air-conditioning on high. The driver is Carmen Greer. She's a good-looking young woman with a beautiful little girl... and she has quite a story to tell. She married into the wrong family. They're a bitter and miserly clan, and they've made her life hell. Now her monster of a husband is due out of prison. She needs help, and she needs it now."--BOOK JACKET.
Another heartstopping page turner featuring Jack Reacher, hero of the blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise.Jack Reacher, adrift in the hellish heat of a Texas summer. Looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A woman stops, and offers a ride. She is young, rich and beautiful.But her husband's in jail. When he comes out, he's going to kill her.Her family's hostile, she can't trust the cops, and the lawyers won't help. She is entangled in a web of lies and prejudice, hatred and murder.Jack Reacher never could resist a lady in distress.
Jack Reacher, hailed as "a wonderfully epic hero" by People,confronts Texan hatred and hidden crimes in this superb new thriller.
Ex-military cop Jack Reacher returns in this latest in the award-winning series critics call "spectacular" (The Seattle Times), "relentless" (Denver Post), and "perfect" (The New York Times Book Review).
Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas and getting desperate for a ride. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up.
She's called Carmen. She's a good-looking young woman, she has a beautiful little girl . . . and she has married into the wrong family. They're called the Greers. They're a bitter and miserly clan, and they've made her life a living hell. Worse, her monster of a husband is soon due out of prison. So she needs protection, and she needs it now.
Lawyers can't help. Cops can't be trusted. So Reacher goes home with her to the lonely ranch where nothing is as it seems and where evil swirls around them like dust in a storm. Within days, Carmen's husband is dead-and simmering secrets send Echo, Texas, up in flames.
Author Biography: Echo Burning is Lee Child's fifth novel. Killing Floor, his debut, won two awards for Best First Mystery and was nominated for two more. Child is a native of England and a former television writer.
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