Jack Reacher - 2: Lokaas
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Een ex-marinier raakt bij toeval betrokken bij de ontvoering van een FBI-agente.






Een ex-marinier raakt bij toeval betrokken bij de ontvoering van een FBI-agente.
The most hotly anticipated thriller of 2018 follows our hero Jack Reacher on a quest into his father's past, and climaxes in the most stomach-clenching, hair-raising,blood-curling ticking-time- bomb of an adventure yet. Jack Reacher plans to follow the autumn sun on an epic road trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn't get far. On a country road deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. He thinks, what's one extra day? He takes the detour. At the very same moment, close by, a car breaks down. Two young Canadians are trying to get to New York City to sell a treasure. They're stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. It's a strange place ... but it's all there is. The next morning in the city clerk's office, Reacher asks about the old family home. He's told no one named Reacher ever lived in that town. He knows his father never went back. Now he wonders, was he ever there in the first place? So begins another nailbiting, adrenaline-fuelled adventure for Reacher. The present can be tense, but the past can be worse. That's for damn sure.
Jack Reacher hľadá majiteľku prsteňa. Bude musieť porušiť všetky pravidlá... Pri prechádzke po wisconsinskom mestečku uvidí Jack Reacher vo výklade záložne školský prsteň: West Point 2005. Ťažký rok pre absolventov: Irak, po ňom Afganistan. Prsteň je malý, ženský. Reacher premýšľa, aké drsné okolnosti ženu prinútili vzdať sa niečoho, pre čo musela štyri roky tvrdo študovať. Rozhodne sa to zistiť, tú ženu nájsť a vrátiť jej, čo jej právom patrí. Čím intenzívnejšie však pátra, tým je mu jasnejšie, že prsteň je len malé spojivo v temnej reťazi a bude treba porušiť všetky pravidlá...
Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he's a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president. Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him. This new heartstopping, nailbiting book in Lee Child's number-one bestselling series takes Reacher across the Atlantic to Paris - and then to London. The stakes have never been higher - because this time, it's personal.
Jack Reacher sa po náročnej ceste konečne dostáva do svojho cieľa v severovýchodnej Virgínii: do hlavného stanu svojho starého pôsobiska, sto desiatej jednotky vojenskej polície. Chladná kamenná budova preňho znamená jediný domov, aký kedy mal. Už dlho sa túžil osobne stretnúť s novou veliacou dôstojníčkou, majorkou Susan Turnerovou, ktorú dovtedy poznal len v podobe vzrušujúceho hlasu z telefónu. Na jeho nemilé prekvapenie však za veliteľským stolom žiadna žena nesedí. A na Reachera tu navyše čakajú dve mimoriadne nepríjemné správy – jedna veľmi osobná a jedna, ktorá by ho mohla poslať do väzenia. Čo sa stalo so Susan Turnerovou? A ako sa dostať z kolotoča obvinení? Na to musí Jack prísť za každú cenu.
When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly set, freshly busted nose - it isn't easy to hitch a ride. At last, he's picked up by three strangers - two men and a woman. Within minutes it becomes clear they're all lying about everything - and there's a police roadblock ahead. There has been an incident, and the cops are looking for the bad guys ... Will they get through because the three are innocent? Or because the three are now four? Is Reacher just a decoy? 'He could take out Bond, Dirty Harry, Jason Bourne and Ethan Hunt with both hands tied behind his back. And then sleep with their girlfriends two at a time before getting the last bus out of town' Sun
Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into terror. But within hours the cops have it solved. A slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man claims: You got the wrong guy. After that, all he ll say is: Get Reacher for me
Late At Night, A New York Café. Jack Reacher Orders Coffee In A Cup Made Of Foam, Not China. So He Can Move On At A Moment S Notice. He Owns Nothing, Carries Less. He Has Never Met A Woman Who Said No. Or A Case He Couldn T Solve.But Now Reacher Faces A New Case So Disturbing That The Truth Eludes Him. He Has To Sweat The Details And Work The Clues. Doing It The Hard Way. Until What Started On A Busy New York Street Explodes Three Thousand Miles Away, In The Sleepy English Countryside. With Reacher Striding Alone In The Shadows. Armed And Dangerous.
De man heette Calvin Franz en de helikopter was een Bell 222... - druk 5, midprice
Een oud-militair probeert samen met enkele leden van zijn oude legereenheid te achterhalen wie een van zijn oude vrienden om het leven heeft gebracht.
Jack Reacher is even intrigerend als onderhoudend, even spannend als verslavend. Mannen willen hem zijn en vrouwen willen hem hebben. Reacher is op weg naar Langley, naar het hoofdkwartier van de CIA. Zijn oude afdeling daar heeft een nieuwe leider. Ze heet Susan en hij wil haar ontmoeten. Onderweg door Nebraska struikelt Reacher echter over een lokaal drama: een familie met een transportbedrijf houdt de omwonende boerengezinnen in een stalen greep van angst.
A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces--and Reacher will risk his own to save her from a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.
Jack Reacher, de loner zonder baan, zonder paspoort en zonder adres, wordt benaderd door de aantrekkelijke M.I. Froelich - roepnaam Froelich. Froelich is sinds kort hoofd van de Secret Service. En ze heeft een probleem: iemand dreigt de Amerikaanse vice-president te vermoorden. Reacher biedt aan haar te helpen en treedt vervolgens toe tot de Secret Service, waar hij behoorlijk uit de toon valt. Instinctief verzet hij zich tegen de bureaucratie en de vooroordelen die er gemeengoed zijn. Reachers boerenslimheid, ruwe charme en eigengereidheid passen helemaal niet bij de starre organisatie. Maar tegen een sluipmoordenaar zonder gezicht komen deze eigenschappen buitengewoon goed van pas... 'In feite doet hij precies waar iedereen wel eens van droomt.' Auteur Lee Child over zijn held Jack Reacher
Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers. Riding the subway in New York at two o'clock in the morning, Reacher knows the twelve giveaway signs to look out for. Watching one of his fellow-passengers, he becomes sharply aware: one by one, she ticks off every bulletpoint on his list. So begins the new heartstopping new thriller starring today's most admired action hero, the gallant and enigmatic loner Jack Reacher.
Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Son.New Year s Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The Cold War is ending. Soon, America won t have any enemies left. A soldier is found dead in a sleazy motel bed. Jack Reacher is
Jack Reacher finds himself in bad company in the second novel in Lee Child’s #1 New York Times bestselling series. DON'T MISS REACHER ON PRIME VIDEO! Jack Reacher is an innocent bystander when he witnesses a woman kidnapped off a Chicago street in broad daylight. In the wrong place at the wrong time, he’s kidnapped with her. Chained together, locked in the back of a stifling van, and racing across America to an unknown destination for an unknown purpose, they’re at the mercy of a group of men demanding an impossible ransom. Because this mysterious woman is worth more than Reacher ever suspected. Now he has to save them both—from the inside out—or die trying....
Chicago. Tijdens een doelloze wandeling ontmoet Jack Reacher een aantrekkelijke manke jonge vrouw die worstelt met een kruk en een pakket van de stomerij. Reacher helpt een handje, maar als ze zich omdraaien kijken ze recht in de loop van twee revolvers. Drieduizend kilometer later zitten ze vast in een geheim kamp in het uitgestrekte noorden van Montana. De vrouw zegt dat ze Holly Johnson heet en FBI-agent is. Holly heeft lef, ze is sterk, maar de doorgewinterde Reacher voelt dat er meer achter steekt.
"Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook have a lot in common. Both were army high-flyers. Both were acquainted with Jack Reacher. Both were forced to resign from the service. Now they're both dead. Both were found in their own home, naked, in a bath full of paint. Both apparent victims of an army man. A loner, a smart guy with a score to settle, a ruthless vigilante. A man just like Jack Reacher."--Cover.
Jack Reacher becomes curious about what is driving events in a small town when he is accosted by four hostile local people, and is then charged with vagrancy.
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 firs
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.
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