Lee Child

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Lee Child
  • Bibliography:
    54 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1997
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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About the Author

Lee Child is the British author of the popular Jack Reacher series of thriller novels. His early career was in television where he was a presentation director. He was involved in popular shows such as Brideshead Revisited, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. In 1995, his career in television ended and he began writing novels. His first novel, “Killing Floor” won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel.

Child has splits his time between an apartment in Manhattan and a country house in France. He enjoys reading, music, and watching sports – particularly the Yankees, Aston Villa and Marseilles soccer. He is married with a grown daughter.

Full Series List in Order

Jack Reacher

0.5 - High Heat (Aug-2013)
1 - Killing Floor (Mar-1997)
2 - Die Trying (Jul-1998)
3 - Tripwire (Jun-1999)
4 - Running Blind // The Visitor (Jul-2000)
5 - Echo Burning (Jun-2001)
6 - Without Fail (Apr-2002)
7 - Persuader (May-2003)
8 - The Enemy (May-2004)
9 - One Shot (Jun-2005)
10 - The Hard Way (May-2006)
11 - Bad Luck and Trouble (May-2007)
12 - Nothing to Lose (Jun-2008)
13 - Gone Tomorrow (May-2009)
14 - 61 Hours (May-2010)
15 - Worth Dying For (Oct-2010)
15.5 - Second Son (Aug-2011)
16 - The Affair (Oct-2011)
16.5 - Deep Down (Jul-2012)
17 - A Wanted Man (Sep-2012)
18 - Never Go Back (Sep-2013)
18.5 - Not a Drill (Jul-2014)
19 - Personal (Sep-2014)
19.5 - Small Wars (Aug-2015)
20 - Make Me (Sep-2015)
21 - Night School (Nov-2016)
22 - The Midnight Line (Nov-2017)
22.5 - The Christmas Scorpion: A Novella (Oct-2018)
23 - Past Tense (Nov-2018)
23.5 - The Fourth Man: A Novella (Mar-2019)
24 - Blue Moon (Oct-2019)
25 - The Sentinel (Oct-2020)
26 - Better off Dead (Oct-2021)
27 - No Plan B (Nov-2022)
28 - The Secret (Oct-2023)
29 - In Too Deep (Oct-2024)

Book List in Order: 54 titles

  • Killing Floor

    Jack Reacher - 1

    Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter, just passing through. He is in Margrave, Georgia, for less than a half hour when four policemen arrive, shotguns in hand, to arrest him for murder. All Jack knows is he didn't kill anybody. Not in t...

  • Die Trying

    Jack Reacher - 2

    Jack Reacher is an innocent bystander--in the wrong place at the wrong time--when a woman is kidnapped. Now, he's at the mercy of a group of men demanding an impossible ransom, for this mysterious woman is worth far more than Reacher ever suspected. ...

  • Tripwire

    Jack Reacher - 3

    Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is in Key West enjoying a sort of lazy anonymity when a stranger shows up looking for him. The man has a lot of questions--too many. Hours later, he's dead. And Reacher is forced to follow the man's cold trail back ...

  • Running Blind // The Visitor

    Jack Reacher - 4

    Across the country women are being murdered, victims of an extraordinarily disciplined and clever killer who leaves no trace evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to an apparent motive. Even the elite team of FBI agents ass...

  • Echo Burning

    Jack Reacher - 5

    Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transport. In temperatures of over a hundred degrees, you’re lucky if a driver will open the door of his air-conditioned car long enough to let you slide in. That’s Jack Reacher’s conclusion. He’s adrif...

  • Without Fail

    Jack Reacher - 6

    Skilled, stealthy, and unknown, Jack Reacher is the perfect man for the job: to assassinate the vice president of the United States. Theoretically. The head of a high-level Secret Service security detail wants Reacher to find the holes in her system ...

  • Persuader

    Jack Reacher - 7

    Jack Reacher. The ultimate loner. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he's moved from place to place...without family...without possessions...without commitments. And without fear. Which is good, because trouble--big, vi...

  • The Enemy

    Jack Reacher - 8

    Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier's son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army's brightest stars. But in every cop's life there is one case that changes everything. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.... New Year's Day, 1990. In...

  • The Snake Eater By the Numbers

    in Like A Charm

    Desire leaves a man destroyed ... A young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden ... Jealousy drives a woman mad ... An obsession with numbers precipitates a deadly revenge ... Ambition leads to a curious exchange ... An uncanny likeness...



  • One Shot

    Jack Reacher - 9

    Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enoug...

  • The Hard Way

    Jack Reacher - 10

    Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money because Edward Lane, the man ...

  • James Penney's New Identity

    in Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night

    PREPARE TO BE THRILLED AS YOU'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE. THRILLER is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-w...

  • Safe Enough

    in Mystery Writers of America Presents Death Do Us Part

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage.

  • Bad Luck and Trouble

    Jack Reacher - 11

    From a helicopter high above the California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night.... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher is pulled out of his wandering life--plunged into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends...a...

  • Killer Year

    Killer Year is a group of 13 debut crime/mystery/suspense authors whose books will be published in 2007. The graduating class includes such rising stars as Robert Gregory Browne, Toni McGee Causey, Marcus Sakey, Derek Nikitas, Marc Lecard, JT Ellison...

  • Nothing to Lose

    Jack Reacher - 12

    Two small towns in the middle of nowhere: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can't find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four hostile locals, a vagrancy charge, a...

  • Gone Tomorrow

    Jack Reacher - 13

    New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are okay. The fifth isn't. And if you think Reacher isn't going to get involved ... then you don't know Jack. Susan Mark, the fifth pass...

  • 61 Hours

    Jack Reacher - 14

    A bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she's going to live long ...

  • The Bodyguard

    in First Thrills

    New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. Showcasing many of the organization's bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre, here...



  • Worth Dying For

    Jack Reacher - 15

    There's deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska .. and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it's the unsolved, decades-old case of a missing...

  • The Visitor

    Two female army high-flyers. Both acquainted with Jack Reacher. Both forced to resign from the service. Now they're both dead.Found in their own homes, naked, in a bath full of paint. Apparent victims of an army man. A loner, a smart guy with a score...

  • Second Son

    Jack Reacher - 15.5

    A young Jack Reacher knows how to finish a fight so it stays finished. He knows how to get the job done so it stays done. And, in one of his earliest challenges, he knows that his analytical brain is just as important as his impressive brawn. Oki...

  • The Affair

    Jack Reacher - 16

    Everything starts somewhere. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. Reacher is ordered undercover to investigate the murder of a young woman. Evidence points to a U.S. soldier with p...

  • The Hollywood I Remember

    in Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance

    When a different kind of justice is needed---swift, effective, and personal---a new type of avenger must take action. VENGEANCE features new stories by bestselling crime writers including Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, and Karin Slaughte...

  • Deep Down

    Jack Reacher - 16.5

    Jack Reacher must track down a spy in soldier's clothing -- by matching wits with four formidable females. Three are clean -- but the fourth may prove fatal. Summoned by Military Intelligence to Washington, D.C., Reacher is sent undercover. The a...

  • I Heard a Romantic Story

    in Love Is Murder (Mira)

    In this Thriller Short, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child shows that not every romance ends happily, not even when the story involves a prince. Sometimes the story ends with a bang, the kind that can be deadly. ...

  • A Wanted Man

    Jack Reacher - 17

    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 pump...

  • Jack Reacher's Rules

    JACK REACHER’S RULES is the ultimate fan’s guide to the World of Reacher! Featuring selections from all seventeen electrifying Jack Reacher novels and an introduction from Lee Child himself, this one-of-a-kind book compiles timeless advice from m...

  • High Heat

    Jack Reacher - 0.5

    Thriller master Lee Child returns with an exclusive eBook novella. In the midst of a savage heat wave and an infamous murder spree, a blackout awakens the dark side of the city that never sleeps--and a young Jack Reacher takes action as only he can. ...



  • Never Go Back

    Jack Reacher - 18

    Never go back -- but Jack Reacher does, and the past finally catches up with him. . . . Never Go Back is Lee Child’s new novel of action-charged suspense starring “one of the best thriller characters at work today” (Newsweek). Former milit...

  • Not a Drill

    Jack Reacher - 18.5

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this eBook exclusive short story from Lee Child, Jack Reacher is again on the move. But even a pleasant hike on a beautiful summer day turns into a walk on the wild side . . . and perhaps something far more sinister.Don...

  • Personal

    Jack Reacher - 19

    "You can leave the army, but the army doesn't leave you. Not always. Not completely," notes Jack Reacher -- and sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled back into service. This time, for the State Department and the CIA. Someone has take...

  • Fans Asked. He Answered

  • Small Wars

    Jack Reacher - 19.5

    In this eBook exclusive short story, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child goes back to 1989, when Jack Reacher is an MP assigned to solve the cold-blooded murder of a young officer -- whose killer may be closer to Reacher than he suspects. ...

  • Make Me

    Jack Reacher - 20

    "Why is this town called Mother's Rest?" That's all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It's a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named ...

  • Night School

    Jack Reacher - 21

    It’s 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he’s off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind. Two other men are in the classroom -- an FBI agent ...

  • No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

    This hard-hitting collection of Jack Reacher fiction includes an original novella leading into The Midnight Line alongside nine reader favorites: Small Wars, Not a Drill, High Heat, Second Son, Deep Down, Guy Walks into a Bar, James Penney’s New Id...

  • MatchUp

    In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of the world’s most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology. MatchUp takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of...

  • The Midnight Line

    Jack Reacher - 22

    Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005. A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan. The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside. Rea...



  • Too Much Time

    Roughly one significant crime is committed in the US every three seconds. So it's not unlikely to find yourself witnessing one. Jack Reacher is minding his own business in a town in Maine when he sees a youth snatching a woman's bag, and, like a good...

  • The Christmas Scorpion: A Novella

    Jack Reacher - 22.5

    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 Chil...

  • Past Tense

    Jack Reacher - 23

    Family secrets come back to haunt Jack Reacher in this electrifying thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, "a superb craftsman of suspense" (Entertainment Weekly). Jack Reacher hits the pavement and sticks out his thumb. He ...

  • The Fourth Man: A Novella

    Jack Reacher - 23.5

    THE BRAND NEW JACK REACHER STAND-ALONE SHORT STORY THAT SEES REACHER GOING DOWN UNDER FOR THE TIME - BUT POSSIBLY NOT THE LAST. It's a short read, but perfect for a coffee break. Jack Reacher, ex-military drifter of no fixed abode, is stalked and...

  • Blue Moon

    Jack Reacher - 24

    In the next highly anticipated installment of Lee Child’s acclaimed suspense series, Jack Reacher comes to the aid of an elderly couple . . . and confronts his most dangerous opponents yet. “This is a random universe,” Reacher says. “Once ...

  • The Hero

    WHAT MAKES A HERO? WHO BETTER TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION THAN LEE CHILD.''It''s Lee Child. Why would you not read it?'' Karin Slaughter''I don''t know another author so skilled at making me turn the page'' The TimesIn his first work of nonfiction, the c...

  • The Sentinel

    Jack Reacher - 25

    It is close to midnight on a Saturday night when Jack Reacher gets off a bus at the Greyhound station in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville. As always, Reacher is in no hurry. He has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to ge...

  • Best Crime Stories of the Year

    Selected by #1 bestselling author Lee Child: the twenty finest short stories of 2021. . Selected by #1 bestselling author Lee Child: the twenty finest short stories of 2021. There is no finer form for a crime than the short story. WIthin a few pa...

  • The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2021

    A Wall Street Journal holiday 2021 pickA Suspense Magazine Best Book of the YearLee Child selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, and many more.Under the auspices of New Yor...

  • Better off Dead

    Jack Reacher - 26

    Reacher never backs down from a problem. And he's about to find a big one, on a deserted Arizona road, where a Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. Under the merciless desert sun, nothing is as it seems. Minutes later Reach...



  • Jack Reacher: A Mysterious Profile

    The #1 New York Times"bestselling author reveals the story behind “one of this century’s most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes” (The Washington Post).In this short piece, the creator of Jack Reacher shares the origins of the ex-milita...

  • No Plan B

    Jack Reacher - 27

    The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child. The plan: It's coming Fall 2022. No Plan B. In Gerrardsville, Colorado, two witnesses to the same tragedy give two different acco...

  • The Secret

    Jack Reacher - 28

    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 atten...

  • Safe Enough: And Other Stories

    From the world's number one thriller writer, twenty pulse-pounding short stories are collected for the first time in one edition, complete with an introduction from the author. Here are twenty meticulously plotted, intimate portraits of huma...

  • In Too Deep

    Jack Reacher - 29

    The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew ChildReacher wakes up, alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a bed in a makeshift hospital room. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of ...

Award-Winning Books by Lee Child

The Enemy
2005 Nero Wolfe Award -- Novel
Killing Floor
1998 Anthony Award -- First Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lee Child has published 54 books.

The next book by Lee Child, In Too Deep, will be published in October 2024.

The first book by Lee Child, Killing Floor, was published in March 1997.

Yes. Lee Child has 1 series.
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