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The Enemy

Audiobook
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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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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from March 22, 2004
      The latest entry in what is arguably today's finest thriller series (Persuader
      , etc.) flashes back to series hero Jack Reacher's days in the military police. It's New Year's Eve 1990, the Soviet Union is about to collapse and the military is on tenterhooks, wondering how a changed globe will affect budgets and unit strengths, when the body of a two-star general is found in a motel near Fort Bird, N.C. Investigating is Reacher, 29, an MP major who's just been transferred from Panama—one of dozens of top MPs swapped into new posts on the same day, he later learns. Missing from the general's effects is a briefcase that, it's also revealed later, contained an agenda for a secret meeting of army honchos connected to an armored division. Then the general's wife is found bludgeoned to death at home and, soon after, a third body surfaces, of a slain gay Delta Force soldier whose murder contains clues pointing to Reacher as culprit. With Summer, a young black female lieutenant MP at his side (and, eventually, in his bed), Reacher digs deep, in his usual brilliant and violent way, butting against villainous superior officers, part of a grand conspiracy, as well as against members of Delta Force who think that Reacher killed their colleague. Unlike recent Reacher tales, the novel is as much mystery as thriller, as Reacher and Summer sift for and put together clues, but the tension is nonstop. There's a strong personal element as well, involving Reacher's relationship with his brother and dying mother, which will make the novel of particular interest to longstanding fans of the series. Textured, swift and told in Reacher's inimitably tough voice, this title will hit lists and will convince those who still need convincing that Child has few peers in thrillerdom. Agent, Darley Anderson.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      What's especially enjoyable about Dick Hill's reading of this Jack Reacher prequel is that Reacher even sounds younger. In Child's latest (the eighth Reacher yarn) and best since THE KILLING FLOOR, Reacher, a 29-year-old MP, is called out when a general dies, the general's wife is murdered, and two Special Forces soldiers are taken out soon after. Aside from the fast-paced action, listeners learn more about Reacher's complicated past than in all the previous books combined. Injecting extra verve, Hill sounds like he's enjoying his narration. Jack Reacher and Dick Hill are welcome friends. A.L.H. 2005 Audie Award Finalist (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 5, 2004
      Child (The Persuader
      , etc.) brings back his intrepid hero, Jack Reacher, for another excellent mystery, which steps back in time to the eventful first few weeks of 1990. The Berlin Wall has just come crashing down, marking an end to the Cold War, and as a result, the U.S. Army is facing a massive restructuring of purpose and personnel. During this turbulent time, 29-year-old Reacher, an MP major stationed to a base in North Carolina, is called on to investigate the death of a two-star general found dead in a seedy motel. Veteran reader Wolf, who has given voice to Reacher in seven previous novels, slips easily into this character; his calm, thoughtful delivery fits perfectly with Reacher's contemplative first-person narration. Wolf uses his voice to draw listeners into Reacher's investigation, as the MP ponders each clue and follows a trail of cover-ups and murder to the highest echelons of the military. Although Wolf struggles a bit with his French accents, his narration complements one of the best novels in Child's series. Simultaneous release with the Delacorte hardcover (Forecasts, Mar. 22).

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In a step back into Jack Reacher's past--it's 1989, and the Berlin Wall has fallen. Reacher, then a young MP, investigates the murders of a two-star general, his wife, and a Delta Force officer who might be gay. When Reacher's new commanding officer orders him to quit the investigation, he disobeys and uncovers a military cabal and the mystery behind the brutal murders. Dick Hill's narration heightens Lee Child's gift for intricate plotting and sharply defined characters. Hill performs Reacher's clipped, precise diction with a dark, utterly believable ferocity. Listeners know Reacher can overcome three MPs and steal their car. Hill does a fine job with female characters, too. Lieutenant Summer, Reacher's partner, sounds tough and smart, and as Reacher's dying French mother, Hill is superb. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine

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