Jack Reacher · Book 25
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.
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