Jack Reacher · Book 8

The Enemy

by Lee Child

Published
11 May 2004
Pages
472
ISBN-13
9780440296461
Type
novel

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About this book

"The Enemy" (2004-05-11, 472 pages) is one of the Reacher novels set during his Army career rather than his later drifting years, taking place around 1990 -- part of the small cluster of chronological outliers, alongside "The Secret," "Night School" and "The Affair," that show Reacher before "Killing Floor" begins his life on the road.

Its place in Jack Reacher

The Enemy is book 8 in the Jack Reacher series. It follows Persuader. It is followed by One Shot. 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…

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