Jack Reacher · Book 1
Killing Floor
- Published
- 17 March 1997
- ISBN-13
- 9781590861196
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Killing Floor" (1997) is the book that started it all -- Lee Child's introduction of Jack Reacher, the former U.S. Army military police major who walks away from his uniform to drift across America with no home, no luggage, and an unerring instinct for trouble. It set the template Child would follow for a book a year over the next two decades.
Its place in Jack Reacher
Killing Floor is book 1 in the Jack Reacher series. It is followed by Die Trying. 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 9781423339861
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9783453197565
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781409084815