High Heat: A Jack Reacher Novella
New York Times best-selling thriller master, Lee Child returns with an exclusive eBook novella. In the midst of a savage heat wave and an infamous murder spree, a blackout awakens the dark side of the city that never sleeps - and a young Jack Reacher takes action as only he can. July 1977. Jack...
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New York Times best-selling thriller master, Lee Child returns with an exclusive eBook novella. In the midst of a savage heat wave and an infamous murder spree, a blackout awakens the dark side of the city that never sleeps - and a young Jack Reacher takes action as only he can. July 1977. Jack Reacher is almost seventeen, and he stops in New York City on the way to visit his brother at West Point. The summer heat is suffocating, the city is bankrupt, and the mad gunman known as Son of Sam is still on the loose. Reacher meets a woman with a problem, and agrees to help her...but then the power grid fails and the lights go out, plunging the lawless city into chaos. What does a visiting teenager do in the dark? If that visiting teenager is Jack Reacher, the answer is plenty.
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Format: Audible Audio Edition
ASIN: B00HCJOKBM
Publish date: 2013-12-24
Publisher: Random House Audio
Edition language: English
Series: Jack Reacher -6 (#17)
Ahhh, finally -- an actually satisfying shorter Jack Reacher story. It's longer than the others I've tried -- a novella, not just a short story. That's probably a lot of it, but there's something more to it -- just don't ask me what. Reacher's on summer vacation before his senior year -- pretty mu...
Just realized that I've already listened to High Heat mid last year coupled with two other shorts of the Jack Reacher series. Nonetheless, it was a great listen!
Book # 17.5 in the Jack Reacher seriesThis novella brings us one more facet of Jack Reacher’s younger years. In “High Heat” Jack is 16 years old and as a teenager is acting way beyond his age, at 6’2” he is fully grown up physically and has already developed the speech, sarcasm, tactics, logic and c...
The story takes place in the '70's when a young Jack Reacher takes a trip to New York City. He confronts a mobster to defend a woman and finds himself in trouble with the mob and the woman who is an FBI agent. Then a black-out takes the power out of the city and Jack meets a girl. While in the car w...
I enjoy the young Jack Reacher stories, but I found the ending unsatisfying for rather obvious reasons. I'm hoping the plot device will be explained in the next book, as I understand this leads into it. The good news is I'm starting that novel tonight.
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