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The Secret

Jack Reacher (Book 28)

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Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding.

**NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON**

The gripping Jack Reacher thriller from the No.1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.

Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient wakes to find two strangers by his bed.

They show him a list of names and ask a simple but impossible question. Minutes later he falls to his death from his twelfth-floor window - a fall which generates some unexpected attention.

That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher, recently demoted from Major, is assigned as the Army's representative. If he gets a result, great. If not, he's a convenient fall guy.

Reacher may be an exceptional military investigator, but office politics aren't what gets him up in the morning. As he races to identify a cold-blooded killer and uncover a secret that stretches back 23 years, he must navigate around his new partners.

Will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way . . . or his way?

‘Jeff Harding’s [...] narration captures Reacher’s character perfectly [...] you have to savour every minute.’ The Sunday Times

PRAISE FOR THE JACK REACHER SERIES

'There's only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.' MICK HERRON

'Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of.' KEN FOLLETT

'Everyone needs to kick some butt sometimes, even if it's just imaginary.' JOJO MOYES

Although the Jack Reacher novels can be listened to in any order, The Secret is the 28th audiobook in the internationally bestselling series.

©2023 Andrew Child & Lee Child (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

The Secret is a corker . . . Fast and furious, this is classic Jack Reacher doing what he does best – busting heads and breaking rules to get to the bottom of a conspiracy
Daily Express
A flow to the fight scenes . . . some flashes of humour . . . Welcome back, Jack
The Times
If there is a more iconic character in modern fiction than Jack Reacher, I’d like to meet them
Daily Mirror
Jack Reacher is on good form . . . Cue classic laconic violence
The Sun

User Reviews

Book 4.7
Narration 4.7
Author Lee Child and Andrew Child
Narrator Jeff Harding
Series Jack Reacher
Duration 8 hours and 19 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781529900750
Format Audiobook
Publisher Transworld
Genre Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Thriller / suspense fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE
Rating
4.7 (3 reviews)
Narration
4.7 (3 reviews)

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