Killing Floor
The first Jack Reacher novel in the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling thriller series
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4.2 • 981 Ratings
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Publisher Description
**NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON**
"This was the first Jack Reacher novel and with its lean, spare prose it has one of the most intriguing heroes of our times and displays a gift for explosive drama." (Daily Express)
Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret.
Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years.The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure.
They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.
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Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular series. It presents Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs, the perfect action hero.
**NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON**
"This was the first Jack Reacher novel and with its lean, spare prose it has one of the most intriguing heroes of our times and displays a gift for explosive drama." (Daily Express)
Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret.
Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years.The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure.
They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.
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Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular series. It presents Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs, the perfect action hero.
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APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Lee Child’s first novel also marks the debut for his enduring anti-hero Jack Reacher, who has since appeared in more than two dozen books. The towering ex-military drifter is arrested for murder on the opening page of Killing Floor, drawing him into a network of corruption that extends far beyond the sleepy small town in Georgia where the action begins. Framed by local law enforcement, Reacher grows even more fixated on retribution when he learns of his brother’s involvement. Brutally violent when circumstances require it, Reacher becomes an unrelenting force of justice. The book’s staccato first-person narration and darkly comic touches establish the brooding blueprint for the many Reacher thrillers to come, as well as inspiring the hard-bitten 2022 TV series Reacher.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Although the tale is built around a coincidence as big as the author's talent, beautifully detailed action scenes and fascinating arcana about currency and counterfeiting enliven this taut and tough-minded first novel by British TV writer Child. Out of sheer restlessness and rootlessness, 36-year-old ex-military policeman Jack Reacher persuades a Greyhound bus driver to make an unscheduled stop in Margrave, the small Georgia town where Reacher's brother, a U.S. Treasury official, just happens to have been murdered a few hours earlier. Reacher doesn't know about his brother's death or suspect his presence in the town. Indeed, when he's arrested in a local diner for being a conspicuously mysterious stranger, Reacher tells the detective who interviews him that he dropped off the bus to investigate the death of Blind Blake, a guitar player murdered in Margrave 60 years ago. Downsized out of the military, Reacher has cutting-edge investigative and killing skills that come in handy the moment he learns of his brother's murder. This combination of events is so unbelievably convenient that it almost overwhelms the book's solid writing. The reader expects the other shoe to drop-for Reacher to be revealed as an undercover agent, or some such; but it never does. Otherwise, Child writes with a hand as strong and steady as steel. Margrave is a wonderful creation, a seemingly picture- perfect community under the care of a mysterious foundation where the streets are always swept and the people who run the tiny local businesses get grants of $1000 a week to stay open. Two scenes of brutal violence in a nearby prison are rendered with exquisite precision, as is a stalking murder inside the baggage area of the Atlanta airport, and the vast counterfeiting conspiracy that Reacher's brother was probing is wholly credible.
Customer Reviews
Suspenseful
Enjoyed this, my first Lee Childs read. Will read more.
Great Introduction.
Reacher is introduced with maximum impact. Adapted well to the screen.
Lee Child, Killing Floor
Great book, this is the third book in the series that I've read in the last 3 months. I found it kept my interest with a titillating stand alone story. I'm now into another Lee Child's book "Past Tense"