![]() After a moment they disappeared completely, and the world went quiet and still. Reacher watched its tail lights grow faint in the mist. The car that had let him out was already driving away. The nation’s capital, where all kinds of things were going on. Beyond it in the east, D.C.’s glow lit up the clouds. The middle of the evening, in the middle of winter, in the northeastern corner of Virginia. So before even putting the key in his pocket he turned around and went back out to the lot. Nothing he hadn’t seen a thousand times before. The furniture was made of wood, all dark and bruised, and the television set was small and old, and the curtains were gray with grime.Īll as expected. No doubt the shower would be weak and strangled, and the towels thin, and the soap small, and the shampoo cheap. It was dark and patterned and ideal for concealing stains. Not that the carpet would be cleaned often. There was a low-pile carpet that after cleaning would dry in hours, so the room could rent again the same day. There were low-watt bulbs in all the fixtures, likewise. There was a raucous through-the-wall heater, which would be too noisy to sleep with, which would save the owner money on electricity. All rights reserved.:Įventually they put Reacher in a car and drove him to a motel a mile away, where the night clerk gave him a room, which had all the features Reacher expected, because he had seen such rooms a thousand times before. A native of England and a former television director, Child lives in New York City. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in almost a hundred territories. ![]() All have been optioned for major motion pictures the first of which, Jack Reacher, was based on One Shot. ![]() What does a visiting teenager do in the dark? If that visiting teenager is Jack Reacher, the answer is: plenty.Lee Child is the author of eighteen New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers, with eight having reached the #1 position. ![]() and then the power grid fails and the lights go out, plunging the lawless city that never sleeps into chaos. Reacher meets a woman with a problem, and agrees to help her. The summer heat is suffocating, fires are raging in the Bronx, the city is bankrupt, and the mad gunman known as Son of Sam is still on the loose. Jack Reacher is almost seventeen, and he stops in New York on his way from South Korea to visit his brother at West Point. Published exclusively as an ebook, a long short story from thriller master Lee Child about the teenage Reacher, now also available in No Middle Name: the Collected Jack Reacher Stories. A long short story about Jack Reacher as a teenager in the city that never sleeps, originally published exclusively as an ebook, now also available in the Reacher short story collection No Middle Name. ![]()
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