Blue Moon, Lee Child
Blue Moon, Lee Child
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Blue Moon
A Jack Reacher Novel

Bestseller

Author: Lee Child

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 11 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/29/2019


Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! 

“Jack Reacher is today’s James Bond, a thriller hero we can’t get enough of.”—Ken Follett

“This is a random universe,” Reacher says. “Once in a blue moon things turn out just right.”
 
This isn’t one of those times.
 
Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you know what they say about good deeds. Now Reacher wants to make it right.
 
An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a brutal turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs.
 
Reacher has to stay one step ahead of the loan sharks, the thugs, and the assassins. He teams up with a fed-up waitress who knows a little more than she’s letting on, and sets out to take down the powerful and make the greedy pay. It’s a long shot. The odds are against him. But Reacher believes in a certain kind of justice . . . the kind that comes along once in a blue moon.
 
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About Lee Child

English Author Jim Grant (Pen Name) “Lee Child”, was born in 1954 in Coventry, England UK. His most notable writings are the Jack Reacher series novels. Beginning with his first novel, Killing Floor, each of his work follows a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher who wanders throughout the United States.

Grant (Child) studied law at the University of Sheffield, but knew he had no intention of practicing law. After graduating, he worked in commercial television. He worked in that venue until 1995. A fun fact is that he chose Reacher for his main characters name, because he himself is tall and his wife once said, “If this “writing thing” does not work out, you could always be a Reacher in a supermarket.” Grant (Child) describes his books as revenge stories-“somebody does a very bad thing, and Reacher takes revenge.” In 2012, his novel “One Shot”, was adapted into a film called “Jack Reacher”, starring Tom Cruise.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on July 23, 2024

Cards on the table, I’m a long-term Reacher fan, and I’ve read all of the books – but this one is a stinker, the worst book so far! I didn’t much care for Night School (book #21), but I’ve enjoyed the last two, so I did have high hopes for this one. And it starts out quite well as Jack, in transit, s......more

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on March 03, 2020

Q: This is a random universe. Once in a blue moon things turn out just right. Like now. (c) Q: “I can’t always win. One day I’m going to lose. I know that. But not today. I know that, too.” (c) Q: No such thing as impossible. Merely a failure of planning. (c) Jack Reacher doing his damndest to find tro......more

Goodreads review by Skip on October 01, 2020

It's horrifying that this book has a GR rating of 4.2. 2 stars is generous. Jack Reacher is riding on a bus, sees a crime developing, and saves an old man from being robbed of a substantial sum of money he needs to repay a loan shark for money used for cancer treatments for his daughter. Jack decide......more

Goodreads review by Bharath on January 02, 2022

I had not been reading Jack Reacher books since the last 2 years or so. But I always find the books entertaining, and are safe reads for me. So, I returned to a Jack Reacher book as the first of the year. I would not rate this as among the best ones, but it is a relaxing & fast read nevertheless. Rea......more


Quotes

“Reacher is so irresistible a character that he draws fans from every demographic.”Booklist (starred review)

“Child is at the top of his game in this nail-biter.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)