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Má Jack Reacher posloužit jako zástěrka? Nebraska a Jack Reacher, obrovský vazoun s čerstvě rozbitým nosem, který se stále snaží dostat stopem na východ do Virginie, protože tam na něj čeká jistá nevyřízená záležitost. Kdo by ale takovému chlapovi zastavil? Nakonec se na něj usměje štěstí a zastaví mu auto se třemi lidmi – dvěma muži a jednou ženou. Reacher okamžitě pozná, že lžou – a hned vzápětí se dostanou do policejní kontroly na dálnici. A projedou. Protože jsou ti tři spolucestující nevinní? Nebo proto, že se ze třech stali čtyři? Má Reacher posloužit jako zástěrka?

Margrave is a no-account little town in Georgia. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles in the rain, just passing through. An arbitrary decision, a tribute to a guitar player who died there decades before. But Margrave has just had its first homicide in thirty years. And Reacher is the only stranger in town. So the murder is pinned on him. As nasty secrets leak out and the body count mounts, only one thing is for sure: They picked the wrong guy to take the fall. Killing Floor" introduces Jack Reacher, the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode. Trained to think fast and act faster, with an eye for the women, he is truly every thinking reader's perfect action hero."

Digging swimming pools by hand in Key West, Florida, Jack Reacher is as tanned and as fit as he's ever been. A local girl says he looks like a condom filled with walnuts. Being invisible has become a habit. He doesn't want to be found. So when a private detective comes nosing around and asking questions, Reacher is not pleased. Especially when he later finds the guy dead. With his fingertips sliced off. Why was he so determined to find him? What does the vicious Wall Street honcho Hook Hobie have to do with it? And what about the reappearance of a woman from Reacher's own troubled past? Tripwire" is a taut, nailbiting adventure which once again stars Lee Child's irresistible hero, the maverick former military policeman Jack Reacher. "

You do not mess with the Special Investigators! The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher's drifter life in a practical way. In addition to his folding toothbrush, he now needs to carry photo ID to get around. Yet he is still as close to untraceable as a human being in America can get. So when a member of his old Army unit manages to get a message to him, he knows it has to be deadly serious. The Special Investigators always watched each other's backs. Now Reacher must put the old unit back together. Someone has killed one of them, and he can't let that go.

You do not mess with the Special Investigators! The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher's drifter life in a practical way. In addition to his folding toothbrush, he now needs to carry photo ID to get around. Yet he is still as close to untraceable as a human being in America can get. So when a member of his old Army unit manages to get a message to him, he knows it has to be deadly serious. The Special Investigators always watched each other's backs. Now Reacher must put the old unit back together. Someone has killed one of them, and he can't let that go.

Two small towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can't find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four redneck deputies who want to run him out of town. Mistake. They're picking on the wrong guy. Jack Reacher is a big man, and he's in shape. No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing, except bloody-minded curiosity. What is the secret the locals seem so keen to hide? A hard man is good to find. Ex-military cop Reacher is today's most addictive hero. Now he pulls on a tiny loose thread, to unravel conspiracies that expose the most shocking truths. Because, after all, Jack Reacher has nothing to lose.

Všechno se seběhlo čirou náhodou. Jack Reacher náhodou pomohl mladé ženě, která s plnýma rukama šatů z čistírny klopýtla na ulici. Chvíli nato už sedí oba se spoutanýma rukama v dodávce a jsou odváženi neznámo kam. Náhodou je unesená žena nejen agentka FBI, ale i dcera náčelníka generálního štábu americké armády a neteř prezidenta USA. A rozhodně ne náhodou si právě ji vybral předák neonacistické militantní organizace jako rukojmí k dosažení svých vyděračských požadavků na americké vládě – spolu s jadernou střelou, které se už zmocnil. Jenže náhodou Jack Reacher je náš starý známý, bývalý důstojník vojenské policie, ověšený medailemi za udatnost, muž, který umí zabíjet i zapálenou cigaretou, jeden z nejlepších střelců, jací se kdy v USA narodili. Náhodou to Borken neví. Když se to dozví, je už pozdě – Reacher se rozhodl zasáhnout.

Pozdě večer, kavárna v New Yorku. Jack si neobjednává kávu do klasického hrnku, ale do umělohmotného pohárku. Aby mohl kdykoliv zmizet. Nikomu nic nedluží a nic s sebou nevláčí. Dosud nenarazil na ženu, která by ho odmítla. Nebo na případ, který by nevyřešil. Nyní však stojí před případem tak komplikovaným, že si není ničím jistý. Namaloval terč na záda kladným spoluhráčům? Tak se Reacher vrací zase na počátek. Dozvídá se podrobnosti, sestavuje vodítka. Používá krajní prostředky, jak říkávali v armádě. Události, které se daly do pohybu na rušné ulici v New Yorku, kulminují na tichém anglickém venkově. Reacher se noří do stínů. Osamělý, ozbrojený a nebezpečný. Neviditelný.

Varovný signál je třetím románem Lee Childa. Po prvotině ”JATKA” a druhé knize ”A PŘECE NEZEMŘEŠ” se v novém thrilleru vrací bývalý vojenský policista Jack Reacher, aby obhájil čest dávno zmizelého muže. Anglický autor Lee Child získal si získal čtenáře prvotinou Jatka (BB art, 1999), která mu vynesla hned dvě prestižní ceny za nejlepší debut roku. Od té doby oba ještě vyzráli, autor, který se zabydlel ve svých amerických reáliích, i jeho hrdina, který už si zvykl na brutalitu světa, ale nesmířil se s ní a oplácí jí podobnou mincí. A i když nám oba přinášejí v nejnovějším románu zdánlivě tuctovou zápletku, i zkušený čtenář žasne, kolika šikovně nastraženými falešnými stopami a postupně budovaným napětím dokáže Lee Child to, že knihu nedáme z ruky, dokud se nedočkáme šokujícího rozuzlení.

Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook had a lot in common. Both high flying army women, both victims of sexual harassment, they left the army under dubious circumstances. Both are now dead, their bodies discovered, unmarked and unscarred, in their own homes. Jack Reacher, former US military policeman, loner and drifter, knew them both. Psychological profiling points to a smart guy, solitary, army, someone who knew both of his victims. The perfect psychological match, Reacher is arrested by an ambitious FBI Special Agent, Julia Lamarr. But when the body of another woman, Sergeant Lorraine Stanley, is discovered, killed with similar precision, Reacher is released. Everyone fears there is a serial killer on the loose. But the FBI have strong persuasive powers, and before long Reacher finds himself heavily involved in the murder investigation. What have these women got in common and why is someone out to do them harm? In this magnificent, utterly ingenious thriller, Reacher once again saves the day, proving that he is a unique hero, capable of holding his own in any situation, and The Visitor" confirms that Lee Child is more than capable of challenging the established names currently writing in this genre."

Jack Reacher is six foot five and dangerous, adrift in the hellish heat of Texas, moving like a shark in the water, and looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A Cadillac stops. A ride, but with a hitch. A pretty young woman, alone. Her husband's in jail. When he comes out, he's going to kill her. Her family's hostile, she can't trust the cops, and lawyers won't help. Reacher is her last option. Will this be the first time he says no - to a lady in distress?

Jack Reacher walks alone. No job, no ID, no last known address. But he never turns down a plea for help. Now a woman tracks him down, because she needs a hand with her new job. Her task? Protecting the Vice President of the United States from someone threatening to kill him. And so Reacher, with nothing but his toothbrush and the clothes he stands up in, enters a very exclusive club at the very heart of Washington power: the offices of the United States Secret Service. Here, he must literally put himself in the line of fire, pitting his native cunning, surly charm and instinctive but controlled violence against the wiliness of bureaucrats and the ghosts from his own past - as well as the brutal ruthlessness of the mystery assassin.