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No middle name Lee Child · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "A collection of pulse-pounding Jack Reacher stories--one never-before-seen novella, plus eleven others collected for the first time in print--each with original introductions from the twelve-time #1 New York Times bestselling author"-- Shares: Retired military personnel, Assassins, Adventure fiction, Action & Adventure

Echo Burning Lee Child · 2001 · ★ 4.1 · 414p · ≈ 13h · Moderate 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… Shares: Retired military personnel, Assassins, Adventure fiction, Action & Adventure

Nothing to Lose Lee Child · 1998 · ★ 3.9 · 426p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It's not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child's electrifying new novel, Reacher--a man with no fear, no illusions, and nothing to lose--goes to war against a town that not only wants him gone, it wants him dead. It wasn't… Shares: Retired military personnel, Adventure fiction, Action & Adventure, Thriller

The Winter of Frankie Machine Don Winslow · 2006 · ★ 4.5 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Frankie Machianno, a hard-working entrepreneur, passionate lover, part-time surf bum, and full-time dad, is a widely recognized pillar of his waterfront community. He is also a retired hit man. Once better known as Frankie Machine, he was a brutally efficient killer. Now someone from his past wants him dead, and after a botched attempt on his life, Frankie sets out to find his potential killers.… Shares: Assassins, Thriller, Mystery

Gone James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge · 2013 · ★ 4.2 · 407p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "A crime lord has declared war on America. Only Detective Michael Bennett knows why. Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit. Detective Michael Bennett once managed to put Perrine behind bars, the only official in the US ever to accomplish that. But now Perrine is out,… Shares: Witnesses, Assassins, Thriller, Mystery

Without Fail Lee Child · 2002 · ★ 4.5 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Skilled, cautious, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is perfect for the job: to assassinate the vice president of the United States. Theoretically, of course. A female Secret Service agent wants Reacher to find the holes in her system, and fast—because a covert group already has the vice president in their sights. They’ve planned well. There’s just one thing they didn’t plan on: Reacher. Shares: Assassins, Adventure fiction, Action & Adventure, Thriller

Assassin's Fate Robin Hobb · 2017 · ★ 4.7 · 853p · ≈ 28h · Moderate "The stunning conclusion to Robin Hobb's Fitz and the Fool trilogy, which began with Fool's Assassin and Fool's Quest "Every new Robin Hobb novel is a cause for celebration. Along with millions of her other fans, I delight in every visit to the Six Duchies, the Rain Wilds, and the Out Islands, and can't wait to see where she'll take me next."--George R.R. Martin More than twenty years ago, the… Shares: Assassins, Action & Adventure

Private James Patterson & Maxine Paetro · 2008 · ★ 3.9 · 387p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The police can't help you Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. It is where you go when you need maximum force and maximum discretion. The secrets of the most influential men and women on the planet come to Jack daily--and his staff of investigators uses the world's most advanced forensic tools to make and break their… Shares: Detectives, Thriller, Mystery

The Visitor Lee Child · 2000 · ★ 3.8 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Lee Child's latest unputdownable thriller starring Jack Reacher features a chilling serial killer.Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook have a lot in common. Both were army high-flyers.Both were acquainted with Jack Reacher.Both were forced to resign from the service. Now they're both dead.Both were found in their own home, naked, in a bath full of paint.Both apparent victims of an… Shares: Retired military personnel, Thriller, Mystery

The Yard Alex Grecian · 2012 · ★ 4.4 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Moderate As Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror in London comes to an end, a new era of depravity sets the stage for the first gripping mystery featuring the detectives of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad.“If Charles Dickens isn’t somewhere clapping his hands for this one, Wilkie Collins surely is.”—The New York Times Book Review Victorian London—a violent cesspool of squalid sin. The twelve detectives of… Shares: Detectives, Mystery

Typhoon Fury Clive Cussler & Boyd Morrison · 2017 · ★ 4.3 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate As they hunt for a bunch of paintings worth a walloping half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew aboard the Oregon chance upon a much bigger problem. A Filipino rebel leader is not only using them to finance the insurgency but has discovered a drug developed yet never used by the Japanese during World War II that makes mega warriors of ordinary soldiers. Not so far-fetched given the… Shares: Adventure fiction, Action & Adventure, Thriller

Never Go Back Lee Child · 2013 · ★ 4.1 · 411p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "Never go back--but Jack Reacher does, and the past finally catches up with him. Never Go Back is #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child's new novel of action-charged suspense starring "one of the best thriller characters at work today" (Newsweek). Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South Dakota to his destination in northeastern Virginia, near… Shares: Retired military personnel, Thriller, Mystery

Certain Prey John Sandford · 1999 · ★ 4.3 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Lucas Davenport confronts an entirely new kind of adversary in this harrowing "Prey" novel. Her name is Clara Rinker, an attractive, pleasant Southern woman--the best hitwoman in the business. But when she's hired for a job in Minnesota and a witness survives, that's when Davenport gets on her case--with no idea of the toll that it will take on him. Shares: Detectives, Assassins, Mystery

Time bomb Jonathan Kellerman · 1990 · ★ 4.0 · 494p · ≈ 16h · Moderate The cheerful chaos of a California schoolyard is shattered one autumn day by gunfire. No children are hurt, but a sniper is shot down -- and psychologist Dr Alex Delaware is called in to help the kids cope with the trauma. Then comes another stunning surprise: the identity of the sniper. Delaware is intrigued by the chance to explore intimately the forces that created such a twisted personality.… Shares: Detectives, Thriller, Mystery

Thin air Richard K. Morgan · 2018 · ★ 4.4 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Moderate "From the moment Richard K. Morgan's dazzling debut, Altered Carbon, burst onto the scene, it was clear that a distinctive new voice had arrived to shake up science fiction. His subsequent novels--including the sequels Broken Angels and Woken Furies--confirmed him as a master of hard-boiled futuristic thrillers. Now Morgan returns to the world of SF noir with a riveting tale of crime, corruption,… Shares: Assassins, Thriller

The Seven Dials Mystery Agatha Christie · 1920 · ★ 3.8 · 193p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Brings back several characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys, in a story that can best be described as a John Buchan thriller told by P.G. Wodehouse. (https://agathachristie.fandom.com/wiki/The_Seven_Dials_Mystery) Consummate young silly ass Gerry Wade is the despair of hosts and hostesses across the land, with his inability to make it to breakfast before the eggs are congealed,… Shares: Detectives, Mystery

Night school Lee Child · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate "Discover the thriller series that The New York Times calls "utterly addictive." After eleven straight global #1 bestsellers, Lee Child sends readers back to school with the most explosive Jack Reacher novel yet. It's 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he's off the grid. Out of sight, out of… Shares: Adventure fiction, Action & Adventure, Thriller, Mystery

Fifty Candles Earl Derr Biggers · 1926 Biggers had always been interested in mystery fiction, but his interest in Hawaii clearly stems from a 1919 vacation in Honolulu. While there, he read a newspaper article on a Chinese detective named Chang Apana. Apana would become the model for Charlie Chan in Biggers' 1925 novel, House Without a Key, and there quickly followed five more Charlie Chan novels. Fifty Candles -- first published in… Shares: Thriller, Mystery

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