Killing Floor

Product Details

Author : Lee Child
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780553505405
Edition : New Ed
Number of Pages : 528
Product Group : Book
Publication Date : 1998-04-02
Publisher : Bantam Books Ltd

ASIN : 0553505408

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Book Description

An exceptional page-turning American thriller by a major new British talent.

Synopsis

Margrave is a no-account little town in Georgia. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles in the rain, just passing through. An arbitrary decision, a tribute to a guitar player who died there decades before. But Margrave has just had its first homicide in thirty years. And Reacher is the only stranger in town. So the murder is pinned on him. As nasty secrets leak out and the body count mounts, only one thing is for sure: They picked the wrong guy to take the fall. "Killing Floor" introduces Jack Reacher, the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode. Trained to think fast and act faster, with an eye for the women, he is truly every thinking reader's perfect action hero.

From the Back Cover

Margrave is a no-account little town in the Georgia Sunbelt. The busiest it ever gets is at the end of ther schoolday. But there's something strange about Margrave: it's completely perfect. So perfect, it's frightening. The lawns are like velvet and the trees look like they've just had a manicure. And from the laid-back barbershop to Eno's state-of-the-art diner, the local businesses thrive without customers.

When drifter and ex-military policeman Jack Reacher hits town, he plans to be gone by Monday. But before then Margrave has its first recorded homicide in thirty years. As the only stranger in town the murder is pinned on Reacher. And so begins his nightmare ...starting with a weekend on the killing floor among the jailhouse lifers.

If long-lost kin and a long-dead guitar hero could tell tales, Reacher would know just what kind of big operation he's walked into. But as the nasty secrets of the lethal conspiracy that keeps the whole town ticking starts to leak out, the body count mounts. And the killing turns into an epidemic.

Action-packed, fast moving and gritty, Killing Floor is a tautly plotted thriller by an outstanding British talent.

About the Author

Lee Child
LEE CHILD is British but moved with his family from Cumbria to the United States to start a new career as an American thriller writer. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award, and his second, Die Trying, won W H Smith's Thumping Good Read Award. His most recent thrillers featuring Jack Reacher, the former US military cop and maverick drifter are Tripwire, The Visitor, Echo Burning and Without Fail. All have been bestsellers.

Customer Reviews

A total masterpiece!!! (2008-09-05)

This book is total masterpiece, I really enjoyed this one - the plot, characters, layout, and total everything - is the highest notch in excellence! I highly recommend this book! Like most of the Lee Child books!

serial character lover (2008-07-31)

I love Jack reacher books, and this is one of the best I`ve read. Lee Child is such a good writer. If you like Child read the Soft Target books by Conrad Jones, theyre fantastic thrillers, same genre. Keep them coming Mr Child.

A good no-brainer read (2008-07-21)

Just finished this on holiday - have never read any Lee Child before so decided to start at the beginning of the Jack Reacher story. I'm more of a fan of the style where you can work out what is happening so was slightly disappointed that you had to be fed some of the knowledge and couldn't have worked it out on your own. Plus there were some big leaps that you had to make (won't spoil it for those who haven't read but there is the 'coincidence in being in Margrave' and the 10th man leap which I still can't work out!).Having said that, it is a real page-turner and all characters are very engaging. While it is the Jack Reacher series, I do hope we see some of the others back in other books in the series. I guess I'll have to read them to find out.

Don't let the military aspect put you off a fabulous book (2008-06-21)

I picked this book up in the airport to read on holiday not expecting anything but an average but good holiday read. I couldn't put it down. It completely surprised me. By the end of the first chapter I was so bumused and enagaged by the plot and the main character that I was engrossed for the next two days.Although Jack Reacher is a gruff, predatory loner, something about him makes you want to learn more and more about how he has come to be at the point in his life where this novel starts. It was full of action, full of twists and turns and I found it refreshingly orginal in the over saturated thriller/crime genre.I have since gone on to read most of the other books by Lee Child and while they may never again have the same impact is this introduction to Jack Reacher, they are still my holiday novel of choice 7 years on.

God Awful (2008-03-30)

This book receives good reviews, dont be fooled. This book is rubbish! from start to finish. The story has a flimsy plot. The characters are shallow. The book lacks any originality, and the main character is just a combination of every other invincible contrived "anti hero". Honestly, this book is absolute garbage.

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