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The Enemy

A Jack Reacher Novel

A Reacher Novel

A Jack Reacher Novel

A Reacher Novel

A Jack Reacher Novel

By Lee Child

By Lee Child

By Lee Child

By Lee Child

By Lee Child

By Lee Child

By Lee Child

By Lee Child

By Lee Child
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By Lee Child
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Part of Jack Reacher

Part of Jack Reacher

Part of Jack Reacher

Mass Market Paperback $9.99

May 19, 2009 | ISBN 9780440245995

Paperback $18.00

Jun 17, 2025 | ISBN 9780440423003

Large Print $30.00

Mar 06, 2012 | ISBN 9780739378526

Ebook $7.99

May 11, 2004 | ISBN 9780440334989

Audiobook Download $22.50

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    About The Enemy

    Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! 

    THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES • “A thriller that gallops at a breakneck pace.”—Chicago Sun-Times
     
    Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier’s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army’s brightest stars. But in every cop’s life there is one case that changes everything. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.
     
    New Year’s Day, 1990. In a North Carolina motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. Within hours the general’s wife is murdered. Then the dominoes really start to fall.
     
    Somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Reacher is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have. But Reacher won’t quit. He’s fighting a new kind of war—against an enemy he didn’t know he had. And against a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.
     
    The Enemy, like most of the books in the Jack Reacher series, can be read as a standalone thriller.

    About The Enemy

    Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! 

    THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES • “A thriller that gallops at a breakneck pace.”—Chicago Sun-Times
     
    Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier’s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army’s brightest stars. But in every cop’s life there is one case that changes everything. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.
     
    New Year’s Day, 1990. In a North Carolina motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. Within hours the general’s wife is murdered. Then the dominoes really start to fall.
     
    Somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Reacher is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have. But Reacher won’t quit. He’s fighting a new kind of war—against an enemy he didn’t know he had. And against a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.
     
    The Enemy, like most of the books in the Jack Reacher series, can be read as a standalone thriller.

    About The Enemy

    Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier’s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army’s brightest stars. But in every cop’s life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.

    New Year’s Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina “hot-sheets” motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. But this situation can’t be controlled. Within hours the general’s wife is murdered hundreds of miles away. Then the dominoes really start to fall.

    Two Special Forces soldiers—the toughest of the tough—are taken down, one at a time. Top military commanders are moved from place to place in a bizarre game of chess. And somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Jack Reacher—an ordinarily untouchable investigator for the 110th Special Unit—is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have.

    But Reacher won’t quit. He’s fighting a new kind of war. And he’s taking a young female lieutenant with him on a deadly hunt that leads them from the ragged edges of a rural army post to the winding streets of Paris to a confrontation with an enemy he didn’t know he had. With his French-born mother dying—and divulging to her son one last, stunning secret—Reacher is forced to question everything he once believed…about his family, his career, his loyalties—and himself. Because this soldier’s son is on his way into the darkness, where he finds a tangled drama of desperate desires and violent death—and a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.

    About The Enemy

    Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! 

    THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES • “A thriller that gallops at a breakneck pace.”—Chicago Sun-Times
     
    Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier’s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army’s brightest stars. But in every cop’s life there is one case that changes everything. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.
     
    New Year’s Day, 1990. In a North Carolina motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. Within hours the general’s wife is murdered. Then the dominoes really start to fall.
     
    Somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Reacher is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have. But Reacher won’t quit. He’s fighting a new kind of war—against an enemy he didn’t know he had. And against a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.
     
    The Enemy, like most of the books in the Jack Reacher series, can be read as a standalone thriller.

    About The Enemy

    Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier’s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army’s brightest stars. But in every cop’s life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.

    New Year’s Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina “hot-sheets” motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. But this situation can’t be controlled. Within hours the general’s wife is murdered hundreds of miles away. Then the dominoes really start to fall.

    Two Special Forces soldiers—the toughest of the tough—are taken down, one at a time. Top military commanders are moved from place to place in a bizarre game of chess. And somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Jack Reacher—an ordinarily untouchable investigator for the 110th Special Unit—is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have.

    But Reacher won’t quit. He’s fighting a new kind of war. And he’s taking a young female lieutenant with him on a deadly hunt that leads them from the ragged edges of a rural army post to the winding streets of Paris to a confrontation with an enemy he didn’t know he had. With his French-born mother dying—and divulging to her son one last, stunning secret—Reacher is forced to question everything he once believed…about his family, his career, his loyalties—and himself. Because this soldier’s son is on his way into the darkness, where he finds a tangled drama of desperate desires and violent death—and a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.

    #8 in the Jack Reacher series

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    Better Off Dead
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    See all books by Lee Child

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    No Plan B
    Better Off Dead
    Reacher: Killing Floor (Movie Tie-In)
    The Sentinel
    See all books by Lee Child

    About Lee Child

    Lee Child is the author of more than two dozen New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers, with most having reached the #1 position, and the #1 bestselling complete Jack Reacher story collection, No Middle Name. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in one hundred… More about Lee Child

    About Lee Child

    Lee Child is the author of more than two dozen New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers, with most having reached the #1 position, and the #1 bestselling complete Jack Reacher story collection, No Middle Name. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in one hundred… More about Lee Child

    About Lee Child

    Lee Child is the author of more than two dozen New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers, with most having reached the #1 position, and the #1 bestselling complete Jack Reacher story collection, No Middle Name. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in one hundred… More about Lee Child

    About Lee Child

    Lee Child is the author of more than two dozen New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers, with most having reached the #1 position, and the #1 bestselling complete Jack Reacher story collection, No Middle Name. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in one hundred… More about Lee Child

    About Lee Child

    Lee Child is the author of more than two dozen New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers, with most having reached the #1 position, and the #1 bestselling complete Jack Reacher story collection, No Middle Name. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in one hundred… More about Lee Child

    Product Details

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Mass Market Paperback | $9.99
    Published by Dell
    May 19, 2009 | 496 Pages | 4-3/16 x 7-1/2 | ISBN 9780440245995

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Bantam
    Jun 17, 2025 | 416 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780440423003

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Large Print | $30.00
    Published by Random House Large Print
    Mar 06, 2012 | 624 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780739378526

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Delacorte Press
    May 11, 2004 | 416 Pages | ISBN 9780440334989

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $22.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Feb 02, 2021 | 850 Minutes | ISBN 9780593339121

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    Praise

    "A fabulously suspenseful prequel…. [Lee Child’s] best so far."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

    "Textured, swift, and told in Reacher’s inimitably tough voice … Child has few peers in thrillerdom."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

    "The best showcase of Child’s talent to date. …. one of the best thriller writers at work."—Rocky Mountain News

    "The Enemy sizzles with suspense and action. Child sets a breathless pace."—Orlando Sentinel

    "A rip-roaring read from the first page to the last ."—St. Petersburg Times

    "[Jack Reacher is]. . .the thinking reader’s action hero a surprisingly tender combination of chess master and G.I. Joe."—Seattle Times

    "Will keep you guessing until the final page."—Playboy

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