We want a reliable guide to how to act, we want to build bulwarks against outsiders, we want to provide a secure mechanism for belonging, we want to reassure ourselves that continuing membership is guaranteed if only we conform. We all slice and dice the world’s population into ever smaller fragments until we find a group where we feel comfortable, where we feel we truly belong.Īnd having arrived there, we make rules governing that group’s behavior.

If you’ve been paying attention long enough, you know one thing for sure: the defining human characteristic is tribalism. How to Sleep in a $350-a-Night Hotel Room for $50 Potential Aliases for Use When Booking a Motel How to Open a Locked Iron Gate with a Chrysler Since leaving the army, the authorities have not been able to locate his whereabouts, although his name mysteriously crops up from time to time in connection with investigations into murders, terrorist threats, and other breaches of the law. Jack Reacher, of no fixed address, is a former major in the U.S. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.ĭELACORTE PRESS is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. It features an introduction by Lee Child, but is not a Jack Reacher novel.The novels of Lee Child are works of fiction. Is a compilation of advice, wisdom, and facts from the Jack Reacher series of novels by #1īestselling author Lee Child. Now the hard-won knowledge and hard-hitting strategies of fiction's toughest tough guy are within every thriller reader's reach-in a rapid-fire rundown of the trade secrets, tried-and-true tricks, and time-honored tactics that separate the man in the street from Case in point: Jack Reacher, the two-fisted, quick-witted, 'current poster-boy of American crime fiction' (īestselling author Lee Child, Reacher is a freelance troubleshooter with a mysterious past-and a serious passion for justice. I've got a rule: People mess with me at their own risk.

Is the ultimate fan's guide to the World of Reacher Featuring selections from all seventeen electrifying Jack Reacher novels and an introduction from Lee Child himself, this one-of-a-kind book compiles timeless advice from maverick former army cop Jack Reacher, the hero of Lee Child's blockbuster thrillers and now the star of a major motion picture.

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