One Shot

(Jack Reacher #9)

eBook

English language

Published June 14, 2005 by Delacorte Press.

ISBN:
9780440335474
3 stars (1 review)

Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher is called in by James Barr, the man accused of a lethal sniper attack on a heartland city that leaves five people dead, and teams up with a young defense attorney to find an unseen enemy who is manipulating events behind the scenes. Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, from the world he lives in no phone, no address, no commitments-ex-military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. In Lee Child's astonishing new thriller, Reacher's arrival will change everything about a case that isn't what it seems, about lives tangled in baffling ways, about a killer who missed one shot and by doing so give Jack Reacher …

2 editions

A little far fetched for a premise

3 stars

Content warning Minor spoilers in the review

Subjects

  • Military police
  • Fiction
  • Jack Reacher (Fictitious character)
  • Serial murders
  • Snipers
  • Reacher, jack (fictitious character), fiction
  • Serial murders, fiction
  • Middle west, fiction
  • Fiction, thrillers, general