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.
Key facts about Killing Floor
Killing Floor is a novel by Lee Child. Readers have had it since 17 March 1997.
Our list holds 3 editions of Killing Floor. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781590861196 to find the main one.
Killing Floor is book 1 of 33 in the Jack Reacher series. The series has 33 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. 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
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