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Blue Moon
Jack Reacher (Related to this series)
- Author
- Lee Child
- Narrator
- Jeff Harding
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Publish Date
- 29 October 2019
- Run Time
- 11 hours 14 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding.
**NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON**
Jack Reacher is back in this white-knuckle read from Lee Child.
It's a random universe, but once in a blue moon things turn out just right.
In a nameless city, two rival criminal gangs are competing for control. But they hadn't counted on Jack Reacher arriving on their patch.
Reacher is trained to notice things.
He's on a Greyhound bus, watching an elderly man sleeping in his seat, with a fat envelope of cash hanging out of his pocket. Another passenger is watching too ... hoping to get rich quick.
As the mugger makes his move, Reacher steps in.
The old man is grateful, yet he turns down Reacher's offer to help him home. He's vulnerable, scared, and clearly in big, big trouble.
What hold could the gangs have on the old guy? Will Reacher be in time to stop bad things happening?
The odds are better with Reacher involved. That's for damn sure.
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be listened to in any order, Blue Moon is the 24th in the series.
'This is one of his best' - The Times
'Everyone needs to kick some [butt] sometimes, even if it's just imaginary' JOJO MOYES
‘Jeff Harding’s [...] narration captures Reacher’s character perfectly [...] you have to savour every minute.’ The Sunday Times
© Lee Child 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2019
Critics Review
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It is tremendously comforting to be in the hands of Child and his hero - a good man who we know will save the day in the end before moving on, toothbrush in pocket, "just the clothes on his back. No particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there."
Observer
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Lee Child is the absolute master of the story of a lone stranger arriving in town to save the innocent, and this is one of the best of his series...as always, the violence is ferocious and fast-moving. Anyone feeling hard done by or facing insuperable odds will be comforted by this novel, which is also the best advertisement for the NHS I have ever seen.
Literary Review
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Forget Marvel - we all know Jack Reacher is the only avenger that matters...Child has found his mojo again.
Sun
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There's only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.
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Jack Reacher, the 21st-century knight errant who over 23 books has proved himself the most reliable excellent basher of bad guys since [James]Bond...And good work, Lee Child. If you're at all partial to his revenge fantasies, this is one of the best for a while...your hands keep turning those pages, drawn in by storytelling that knows fancy words count for less than clarity and rhythm...It's nonsense. Yet it's compelling nonsense, a vicarious clearing away of life's obstacles via a hero who has no moral qualms, no physical or emotional vulnerability and no interest in what shampoo he uses.
The Times
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There is a mythic heft to all this...Resolution will come, and Reacher will ride out of town once more, taking absolutely nothing with him. The body count, 24 books in, is into the hundreds...a fundamental part of the stories' appeal to women[is] their understated feminism. Reacher respects and likes women...In some ways, Blue Moon might be read...as female revenge drama...But do women fancy Jack Reacher?....the real point is that women want to be him. That's the fantasy: to abandon all responsibilities. To be physically invincible. To be justifiably fearless.
Guardian
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An über-thriller in which things turn out just right...it provides a satisfying climax and leaves you breathless, glad to be alive in a wicked world.
Evening Standard
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Drifter hero Jack Reacher on trigger-happy form in an action adventure which ramps up the violence and body count.
Sunday Mirror
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Reacher is nigh-invincible here (and certainly smarter than his thuggish opponents), and the body count is even more prodigious than in earlier books, which is saying something. Still, it is dispatched with the author’s customary panache.
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Details
- Author
- Lee Child
- Narrator
- Jeff Harding
- Duration
- 11 hours 14 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 October 2019
- ISBN
- 9781473565258
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Espionage and spy thriller, Adventure / action fiction
Synopsis
Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding. **NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON**Jack Reacher is back in this white-knuckle read from Lee Child.It's a random universe, but once in a blue moon things turn out just right.In a nameless city, two rival criminal gangs are competing for control. But they hadn't counted on Jack Reacher arriving on their patch.Reacher is trained to notice things.He's on a Greyhound bus, watching an elderly man sleeping in his seat, with a fat envelope of cash hanging out of his pocket. Another passenger is watching too ... hoping to get rich quick.As the mugger makes his move, Reacher steps in.The old man is grateful, yet he turns down Reacher's offer to help him home. He's vulnerable, scared, and clearly in big, big trouble.What hold could the gangs have on the old guy? Will Reacher be in time to stop bad things happening?The odds are better with Reacher involved. That's for damn sure.Although the Jack Reacher novels can be listened to in any order, Blue Moon is the 24th in the series.'This is one of his best' - The Times'Everyone needs to kick some [butt] sometimes, even if it's just imaginary' JOJO MOYES‘Jeff Harding’s [...] narration captures Reacher’s character perfectly [...] you have to savour every minute.’ The Sunday Times© Lee Child 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2019
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