Lee Child: The Christmas Scorpion (USA 2018)

From the Publisher:
In a new short story available exclusively as an ebook, Jack Reacher's spending the holidays in California. The last thing he expects is a blizzard -- or a visit from the world's deadliest assassin.

Don't miss a thrilling preview of Lee Child's highly anticipated new Jack Reacher novel, Past Tense!

On Christmas Eve, Jack Reacher stumbles into a no-name bar in the California desert, desperate to take refuge from an unexpected snowstorm. Reacher came to Barstow for a little R&R. Instead, he's sequestered in a dark little roadhouse with a bartender, a bewildered elderly couple -- and two members of Britain's Royal Military Police. They tell Reacher they were escorting a VIP to a top-secret meeting at a U.S. military base when they became separated from their charge. That's when the threat came in from a notorious assassin: the Christmas Scorpion. Now they need a miracle to save the day. Or maybe all they need is Jack Reacher.

Lee Child: The Christmas Scorpion. A Jack Reacher Short Story. Delacorte Press, ISBN: 9781984818454 (October, 2018), 3.16 MB (ca. 43 p.), $1.99.

Lee Child: The Christmas Scorpion (UK 2018)

From the Publisher:
This short read (20 pages) is perfect for a coffee break and includes the first three chapters from Lee Child's new thriller Past Tense.
Jack Reacher likes to head south for the winter, to stay warm: so just before Christmas he arrives in a small town in Southern California. But the weather there is not warm and dry, as it's supposed to be: he arrives in a freak blizzard. Reacher finds refuge in a snowed-in roadhouse with four other strangers stranded by the storm. Two of them are British military police, separated by the weather from the VIP they are detailed to protect. Can Reacher help them find their guy, or will an undercover assassin find him first?

Lee Child: The Christmas Scorpion. A Jack Reacher Short Story. Transworld Digital, ISBN: 9781473562660 (October, 2018), 0.88 MB, £1.99.