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Worth Dying For

64.3% complete
2010
2023
1 time
62 chapters
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 Jack Reacher*
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Jack Reacher*     See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of action / adventure novels by Lee Child and later also by Andrew Child featuring the main character Jack Reacher.

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 © 2010 by Lee Child
For Ruth,
my daughter
Eldridge Tyler was driving a long straight two-lane road in Nebraska when his cell phone rang.
May contain spoilers
She used the first ramp, west toward Denver and Salt Lake City, and he walked under the bridge and set up on the eastbound ramp, one foot on the shoulder and one in the traffic lane, and he stuck out his thumb and smiled and tried to look friendly.
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Added: 07-Feb-2022
Last Updated: 24-Jul-2023

Publications

 19-Oct-2010
Random House
Audiobook
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Date Issued:
19-Oct-2010
Format:
Audiobook
Cover Price:
$35.93
Length:
13 hrs 45 min (401 pages)
"Read":
Once
Reading(s):
1)   20 Jul 2023 - 22 Jul 2023
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
2415
Publisher:
ISBN:
Unknown
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Dick Hill  - Narration
From audible.com:

Number one New York Times best seller.

The blockbuster Jack Reacher series that inspired two major motion pictures and the upcoming streaming series Reacher.

There’s deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska...and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades old, that Reacher can’t let go.

The Duncans want Reacher gone - and it’s not just past secrets they’re trying to hide. They’re awaiting a secret shipment that’s already late - and they have the kind of customers no one can afford to annoy. For as dangerous as the Duncans are, they’re just the bottom of a criminal food chain stretching halfway around the world.

For Reacher, it would have made much more sense to keep on going, to put some distance between himself and the hard-core trouble that’s bearing down on him. For Reacher, that was also impossible.

Take another thrill ride with Jack Reacher.
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Notes and Comments:
©2010 Lee Child ℗2010 Random House Audio
 01-May-2011
Dell Publishing Company
Paperback B
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-May-2011
Format:
Paperback B
Cover Price:
$9.99
Pages*:
513
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
12948
ISBN:
0-440-24629-6
ISBN-13:
978-0-440-24629-9
Printing:
6
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Carlos Beltran - Cover Design
Kinsey R Christin - Cover Photograph
Chase Jarvis - Cover Photograph
Ryan McVay - Cover Photograph
"Don't pick up the latest Jack Reacher novel if you don't have some time on your hands, because Worth Dying For is difficult to put down....  Child manages to get an amazing amount of suspense into the novel."
-Associated Press


There's deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska... and Jack Reacher walks right into it.  First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission.  But it's the unsolved, decades-old case of a missing child that Reacher can't let go.

"A model of suspenseful storytelling and an outstanding addition to a series that stands in the front rank of modern thrillers."
-The Washington Post


The Duncans want Reacher gone - and its not just past secrets they're trying to hide.  For as dangerous as the Duncans are, they're just the bottom of a criminal food chain stretching halfway around the world.  For Reacher, it would have made much more sense to put some distance between himself and the hard-core trouble that's bearing down on him.  For Reacher, that was also impossible.

"Still the thinking man's action hero, supreme butt-kicker and smartest guy in the room."
-The Seattle Times
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Notes and Comments:
Dell mass market edition: May 2011
Sixth printing based on the number line.

Canada: $11.99
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19-Oct-2010
Random House
Audiobook

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01-May-2011
Dell Publishing Company
Paperback B

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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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