Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher Series #11) »

Lee Child is the author of thirteen Jack Reacher thrillers, including the New York Times bestsellers Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, and #1 bestsellers Bad Luck and Trouble and Nothing to Lose. His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery, and The Enemy won both the Barry and Nero awards for Best Novel. Foreign rights in the Jack Reacher series have sold in forty territories. All titles have been optioned for major motion pictures.

From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night . In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of ex army investigators is being hunted down one by one.... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher soldier, cop, hero is pulled out of his wandering life by a code that few other people could understand. From the first shocking scenes in Lee Child s explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged like a knife into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends and is on its way to something even worse.

A decade postmilitary, Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his back no phone, no ties, and no address. But now a woman from his old unit has done the impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds Reacher, using a signal only the eight members of their elite team of army investigators would know. She tells him a terrifying story about the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is reuniting with...

The New York Times - Janet Maslin

… [Child] avoids commas, italics, long sentences, balmy caresses and any other talk about the weather. The effect of this streamlining is electrifying. Not for nothing has the cover art of his recent books depicted a bull s-eye.

Bad Luck and Trouble unfolds with the simple, immaculate logic that makes this series utterly addictive.