Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient wakes to find two strangers by his bed.
They show him a list of names and ask a simple but impossible question. Minutes later he falls to his death from his twelfth-floor window - a fall which generates some unexpected attention.
That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher, recently demoted from Major, is assigned as the Army's representative. If he gets a result, great. If not, he's a convenient fall guy.
Reacher may be an exceptional military investigator, but office politics aren't what gets him up in the morning. As he races to identify a cold-blooded killer and uncover a secret that stretches back 23 years, he must navigate around his new partners.
Will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way . . . or his way?
PRAISE FOR THE JACK REACHER SERIES
'There's only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.' MICK HERRON
'Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of.' KEN FOLLETT
'Everyone needs to kick some butt sometimes, even if it's just imaginary.' JOJO MOYES
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Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Secret is the 28th book in the internationally bestselling series.



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