Cleaning the Gold
- Co-authored by Karin Slaughter.
- Co-authored by Lee Child.
- Published
- 15 April 2019
- Pages
- 129
- ISBN-13
- 9780062978301
- Type
- short
About this book
"Cleaning the Gold" (2019-04-15, 129 pages) is a Jack Reacher short story co-written by Lee Child with fellow thriller author Karin Slaughter, a shorter one-off outside the main novel sequence but keeping Reacher's same investigative instincts and taste for sudden violence.
Key facts about Cleaning the Gold
Karin Slaughter and Lee Child wrote Cleaning the Gold, a short story on our list. It has been out since 15 April 2019. The book has 129 pages.
We list 2 editions of this short story. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780062978301 to find the main one.
Cleaning the Gold is book 25 of 33 in the Jack Reacher series. The series has 33 published books. However, the series starts with Killing Floor (1997). Exit Strategy is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 11 November 2025.
Additionally, Lee Child writes Will Trent as a separate series. Those series sit on our thriller shelf. Meanwhile, The Secret is the latest published Lee Child book on file, from 24 October 2023.
About Lee Child
Lee Child is the pen name of British author Jim Grant, creator of the Jack Reacher series, one of the bestselling thriller franchises in modern publishing. Beginning with Killing Floor in 1997, the novels follow Reacher, a former U.S. Army military police major who wanders the country with no fixed home, repeatedly drawn into violence and injustice he feels compelled to correct. See every Lee Child book in order.
Its place in Jack Reacher
Cleaning the Gold is book 25 in the Jack Reacher series. It follows The Christmas Scorpion. It is followed by Past Tense. See the full Jack Reacher reading order.
Jack Reacher is a former U.S. Army military police major who walks away from his uniform and, ultimately, from settled life altogether. He drifts across America with no home, no luggage and no plans — just a folding toothbrush, an ATM card and an unerring instinct for arriving in towns where something is badly wrong. Each novel drops this six-foot-five drifter into a self-contained mystery: a small-town conspiracy, a kidnapping, a crooked operation hiding behind respectable faces. Reacher investigates the way he…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062978301
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780008358938