The Enemy

By Lee Child

The Enemy - Lee Child
  • Release Date: 2004-05-11
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
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Description

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Lee Child’s The Affair.

Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier’s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army’s brightest stars. But in every cop’s life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.

New Year’s Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina “hot-sheets” motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. But this situation can’t be controlled. Within hours the general’s wife is murdered hundreds of miles away. Then the dominoes really start to fall.

Two Special Forces soldiers—the toughest of the tough—are taken down, one at a time. Top military commanders are moved from place to place in a bizarre game of chess. And somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Jack Reacher—an ordinarily untouchable investigator for the 110th Special Unit—is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have.

But Reacher won’t quit. He’s fighting a new kind of war. And he’s taking a young female lieutenant with him on a deadly hunt that leads them from the ragged edges of a rural army post to the winding streets of Paris to a confrontation with an enemy he didn’t know he had. With his French-born mother dying—and divulging to her son one last, stunning secret—Reacher is forced to question everything he once believed…about his family, his career, his loyalties—and himself. Because this soldier’s son is on his way into the darkness, where he finds a tangled drama of desperate desires and violent death—and a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.

Reviews

  • Slow to Action

    4
    By The Kid from NYC
    The book was half over before the action clicked in
  • The enemy

    5
    By debciab
    Fast easy reading keeps you guessing the whole book
  • The best yet

    5
    By Jeffn66
    I keep reading these and they just keep getting better and this one is the the best yet. I didn’t think Persuader could be topped but I was wrong. Well done sir.
  • Great

    5
    By Ambiz5
    I love this read. Did it in less 24 hours. Could not put it down. Great 👍🏽. 🥰🥰🥰
  • Worth reading.

    5
    By Flinthills Jim
    I enjoyed the second time through more than the first.
  • Not one of my favorites

    1
    By Hard to browse
    Of all the books from this series, this was by far my least favorite. It dragged on and on with very little interesting content. Wasn’t what I was expecting.
  • The Enemy

    5
    By David5K
    As usual, a great read!!!! Need more movies! But NOT with Tom Cruise!!! Too freaking short
  • The Enemy

    5
    By brassfield0401
    Very good story, interesting characters and again, a tough Reacher.
  • MAJOR REACHER IS ON THE HUNT

    5
    By RSProds
    Lee Child dials up another far-reaching winner of a Jack Reacher novel. Reacher is a Military Police Major on active duty when all of his investigative and intuitive skills are needed to solve an unusual and elusive murder mystery, plus there is a major shift in his personal life that reveals more backstory about Reacher. Highly Recommended. Four and a half BAFFLING Stars. Apple Books. 400 pages. (RBSProds)
  • The Enemy

    5
    By boots saddle
    Another great Jack Reacher yarn. A little complicated plot, but entertaining, anyway.