Lee Child: A Wanted Man (USA 2025)

From the Publisher:
A masterpiece of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child
Don't miss the hit streaming series Reacher!
"The truth about Reacher gets better and better." -- Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don't add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia.

An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional, the killers vanished. Within minutes, the police are notified. Within hours, the FBI descends, laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was there.

All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat -- to both sides at once.

In Lee Child's white-hot thriller, nothing is what it seems, and nobody is telling the truth. As the tension rises, the twists come fast and furious, keeping readers guessing and gasping until the explosive finale.

Lee Child: A Wanted Man. A Novel. Bantam, ISBN: 9798217090839 (May, 2025), 422 p., $19.00.

Lee Child: A Wanted Man (USA 2013)

From the Publisher:
Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, another telling stories that don't add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And a hitchhiker with a broken nose. An hour behind them, the FBI descends on an old pumping station where a man was stabbed to death -- the knife work professional, the killers nowhere to be seen.

All Jack Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy, in which nothing is what it seems, and nobody is telling the truth.

Lee Child: A Wanted Man. A Reacher Novel. Dell, ISBN: 9780440246312 (May, 2013), 606 p., $9.99.

Lee Child: A Wanted Man (UK 2013)

From the Publisher:
When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly set, freshly busted nose - it isn't easy to hitch a ride. At last, he's picked up by three strangers - two men and a woman.

Within minutes it becomes clear they're all lying about everything - and there's a police roadblock ahead. There has been an incident, and the cops are looking for the bad guys...

Will they get through because the three are innocent- Or because the three are now four- Is Reacher just a decoy-

Lee Child: A Wanted Man. The New Jack Reacher Thriller. Bantam Books, ISBN: 9780553825527 (May, 2013), 427 p., £7.99.

Lee Child: A Wanted Man (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
Reacher is back! A Wanted Man is a new masterpiece of suspense -- from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child.
Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don't add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia.

An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional, the killers vanished. Within minutes, the police are notified. Within hours, the FBI descends, laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was there.

All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat -- to both sides at once.

In Lee Child's white-hot thriller, nothing is what it seems, and nobody is telling the truth. As the tension rises, the twists come fast and furious, keeping readers guessing and gasping until the explosive finale.

Lee Child: A Wanted Man. A Reacher Novel. Delacorte Press, ISBN: 9780385344333 (September, 2012), 405 p., $28.00.

Lee Child: A Wanted Man (UK 2012)

From the Publisher:
Featuring Jack Reacher, hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise.
When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly-set, freshly-busted nose, patched with silver duct tape - it isn't easy to hitch a ride. But Reacher has some unfinished business in Virginia, so he doesn't quit. And at last, he's picked up by three strangers - two men and a woman.

But within minutes it becomes clear they're all lying about everything - and then they run into a police roadblock on the highway. There has been an incident, and the cops are looking for the bad guys...

Will they get through because the three are innocent-Or because the three are now four- Is Reacher just a decoy-

With his signature Swiss-watch plotting and heart-thumping suspense, A Wanted Man shows Lee Child at his sublimely skilful best.

Lee Child: A Wanted Man. The New Jack Reacher Thriller. Bantam Books, ISBN: 9780593065730 (August, 2012), 427 p., £18.99.