Bad Luck and Trouble

Book Details

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Author(s):

Lee Child

First Pub:

2007

Genre(s):

Crime; Mystery; Suspense; Thriller

First Read:

2023

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

85 chapters

Internal ID:

2981

Series:

<- The Hard Way - Nothing to Lose ->

Jack Reacher*

#11 of 29

Jack Reacher*

A series of action / adventure novels by Lee Child and later also by Andrew Child featuring the main character Jack Reacher.

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1) Killing Floor
2) Die Trying
3) Tripwire
4) Running Blind
5) Echo Burning
6) Without Fail
7) Persuader
8) The Enemy
9) One Shot
10) The Hard Way
11) Bad Luck and Trouble
12) Nothing to Lose
13) Gone Tomorrow
14) 61 Hours
15) Worth Dying For
16) The Affair
17) A Wanted Man
18) Never Go Back
19) Personal
20) Make Me
21) Night School
22) The Midnight Line
23) Past Tense
24) Blue Moon
25) The Sentinel
26) Better Off Dead
27) No Plan B
28) The Secret
29) In Too Deep

Copyright:

Dedication:

For the real Frances L. Neagley

First Sentence:

The man was called Calvin Franz and the helicopter was a Bell 222.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

He had answered: I don't make plans, Karla.

Primary Location(s):

Los Angeles, California; Las Vegas, Nevada

Comments:

No comments on file

Synopsis not on file
Extract not on file

Added: 07-Feb-2022

Last Updated: 19-Apr-2023

Publications

09-Apr-2007

Random House

Audiobook

Date Issued:

09-Apr-2007

Format:

Audiobook

Cover Price:

$35.93

Length:

13 hrs 17 min (402 pages)

"Read":

Once

Reading(s):

1) 14 Feb 2023 - 17 Feb 2023

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

2411

Publisher:

Random House

ISBN:

Unknown

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Dick Hill - Narration

From audible.com:

A decade postmilitary, Jack Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his back - no phone, no ties, and no address. But now a woman from his old unit has done the impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds Reacher using a signal only the eight members of their elite team of army investigators would know. She tells him a terrifying story about the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his old team, scrambling to raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing darker by the day.

In a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, they'd better be ready for what comes right back at them.

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

All Covers for this edition of the series

Dell Publishing Company

Paperback B

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Dec-2022

Format:

Paperback B

Cover Price:

$9.99

Pages*:

477

Cover Link(s):

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

13168

Publisher:

Dell Publishing Company

ISBN:

0-440-24601-6

ISBN-13:

978-0-440-24601-5

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Tasha Alexander - Photographer
Carlos Beltran - Cover Design
Tom Hallman - Cover Artist

"[An] action-packed thrill ride."
- Chicago Tribune

From a helicopter high above the California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night. On the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher is pulled out of his wandering life and plunged into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends... and the people he once trusted with his life.

Reacher is the ultimate loner - no phone, no ties, no address. But a woman from his old military unit has found him using a signal only the eight members of their elite team would know. Then she tells him a terrifying story about the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his team, scrambling to unravel the sudden disappearance of two other comrades. But Reacher won't give up - because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, they'd better be ready for what comes right back at them.

A slam-bang yarn filled with [Lee] Child's usual terse life-and-death lessons." - Entertainment Weekly

"A breathless, ultra-cool novel with relentless pacing."
- The Plain Dealer

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

Dell mass market edition: December 2022
Twenty-eighth printing based on the number line
Canada: $12.99

Includes a preview of No Plan B by Lee and Andrew Child.

All Covers for this edition of the series

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Author(s)

Lee Child
Birth: 29 Oct 1954 Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK

Notes:

From www.jackreacher.com:

Lee Child was born October 29th, 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. But he was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars' worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series.

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