The Secret

ThrillerFictionMysteryCrimeMystery Thriller

3.5

Open Library

About this book

1992- Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look like accidents and don’t appear to be connected. Until one body – the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window – generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who promptly calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is assigned as the Army's representative. Reacher may be an exceptional soldier, but sweeping other people's secrets under the carpet isn't part of his skill set. As he races to discover the link between these victims, and who killed them, he must navigate around the ulterior motives of his new 'partners'. And all while moving into the sight line of some of the most dangerous people he has ever encountered. His mission is to uncover the truth. The question will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way . . . or his way?

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About the authors

Lee Child

1954

Lee Child was born in 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. He was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars' worth of paper and pencils and sat down…

Andrew Grant

8 May 1968

Andrew Grant is the younger brother of bestselling thriller writer <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL34328A/" target="_blank">Lee Child</a> ( pen name of James Dover Grant). After graduating from the University of Sheffield, where he studied Drama and English Literature, Grant founded a theatre company that produced original material, culminating with a critically successful appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.He later went on to spend fifteen years working in telecommunications before leaving the corporate world to become a novelist. His debut novel, ***Even***, featuring David Trevellyan, a royal Naval intelligence officer, received stars from both *Library Journal* and …