![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Step by step, the two teams circle - waiting to see which will be the first to walk onto the killing floor. But closing in on him is a team of killers. With two cops who believe in him - a thoughtful black detective and a woman named Roscoe - he closes in on a ruthless conspiracy hiding behind Margrave's rural charm. When authorities learn the first victim was someone from Reacher's past, and he cannot convince them of his innocence, his patient self-defense becomes a raging crusade of revenge. But Reacher is a tough ex-military policeman, trained to think fast and act faster. The easiest suspect is Jack Reacher - an outsider, a man just passing through. Then a bank executive disappears from his home, leaving his keys on the table and his wife frozen with fear. The police chief and his wife are butchered on a quiet Sunday morning. An unidentified man is found beaten and shot to death on a lonely country road. The sleepy, forgotten town of Margrave, Georgia, hasn't seen a crime in decades, but within the span of three days it witnesses events that leave everyone stunned. But he doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Please do sympathize ! Please read the other stories.Įx-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. A fast-paced story that keeps the reader guessing until the end in which Lee Child successfully weaves intrigue, romance, counterfeiting and murder in a winning combination.Due to some reason, the article content has been deleted. In that week, Jack falls in love with Roscoe, uncovers the largest counterfeiting operation in history, solves the murders of his brother and several others, cleans up a corrupt Margrave Police Department, rescues kidnapped victims that include Hubble's family and Roscoe and in the process destroyed the police station, the fire house and burned four warehouses to the ground. They have until the following Sunday before the millions in singles is shipped out. In a plan that almost defies attempts to uncover it, ten people collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in single dollar bills and send them out of the country where they are bleached and reprinted as hundreds and thousands of one hundred dollar bills instead. Together, what they uncover is nothing short of astounding. Both seem honest, but Morrison outranks them, so their investigation has to be careful. The sleepy, forgotten town of Margrave, Georgia, hasn't seen a crime in decades, but within the span of three days it witnesses events that leave everyone stunned. He also starts to trust an officer named Roscoe who gets him coffee on the first day, and treats him as though she knows he is innocent from the start. He isn't sure who to trust, but then he discovers that Chief of Detectives Finlay has only been with the Margrave Department for six months so Jack feels him out. Child, a native of England, is a former television director. ![]() Foreign rights in the Jack Reacher series have been sold in ninety-five countries. His debut novel, Killing Floor, won two awards for best first mystery and was nominated for two more. When Chief Morrison swears Jack was at the scene of the murder, Jack knows the Chief is involved. About the author (2012) LEE CHILD is a 1 bestselling author worldwide. Jack can't leave Margrave until he knows who killed his brother, and why. Then he finds out the murder victim is his brother Joe and everything changes. He is so fearful that he won't say much more, so Jack is unable to do much for him and all he really wants to do is escape this town now and return to anonymity. Earning his trust in the process, Jack learns that Hubble fears for his life and for his family's lives. Jack's military background comes in handy as he finds himself defending the less aggressive banker against the caliber of men there. Though merely held for questioning, they are caged on the third floor with the hard-core lifers. Since it is Friday, while Jack's alibi is being checked, he finds himself a guest of the state run facility in Warburton with another detainee named Paul Hubble. The Chief of Police has already decided Jack is guilty. His desire for anonymity is challenged before he can finish breakfast on his first morning in Margrave, as he is finds himself being taken to the police station for questioning on a murder. Instead, he finds one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history. Killing Floor by Lee Child is about a man named Jack Reacher who comes to the little town of Margrave looking for information about the mysterious death of a guitar player named Blind Blake. ![]()
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