RUNNING BLIND

Child, Lee

ISBN 10: 0399146237 / ISBN 13: 9780399146237

Published by Putnam, 2000

About this Item

Available is a SIGNED 1st ed/1st prtg, w/ complete numberline to "1", of RUNNING BLIND, the fourth outing in the REACHER series by LEE CHILD. Published in 2000 by Putnam, book and mylar protected dust jacket are FINE. Original price of $18.95 intact. The author has signed w/out inscription on a tipped-in page after FFEP. A lovely clean copy, SIGNED.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1738233068557

Bibliographic Details

• Title: RUNNING BLIND
• Publisher: Putnam
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0399146237
• ISBN 13: 9780399146237
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Jack Reacher searches for an elusive killer responsible for the deaths of a number of women, who have nothing in common but the fact that they once worked for the military and had known Jack, and races against time to find a murderer who leaves no trace evidence at the scene of the crime. 50,000 first printing.

Review

Before Lee Child's Jack Reacher became a wanderer, stumbling into desperate situations and sorting them out with his two fists and sharp brain, he used his skill for the US Army's military police. When he is accused of a series of killings--women who left the army after sexual harassment proceedings found with their hearts stopped in baths full of camouflage paint--he has to use his skills to clear his name, and to do the Army and FBI's work for them. The near-impossible perfection of Reacher's physique and brain are met here by a puzzle that almost meets the same standard of perfection--the reason he is suspected is simply that perfect detectives are handy patsies for perfect murders, and Reacher is, besides, a man whom those in authority find making them itch...

"As a rule, the Bureau and the military don't get along too well."
"Well, there's a big surprise. Who the hell do you guys gel along with."
..."You know how it is. Military hates the Bureau, the Bureau hates CIA, everybody hates everybody else...So we need a go-between."
Reacher shrugged.
"I don't know anybody like that. I've been out too long."

Lee Child's remorselessly perverse ingenuity is working overtime in this, his fourth book, though like most great puzzles or tricks, his secrets depend a little heavily on mere misdirection. A book this driven by the central character's laconic aggression ought not to be quite as smart as this is, or quite as likeable--Lee Child's clever formula is to make that paradox work. --Roz Kaveney