They take refuge at a local motel, operated by four men: Mark, Peter, Steven, and Robert. Expanding his search, Reacher discovers that his father grew up in Ryantown, an abandoned blue-collar community that once bordered a prosperous tin mill until he ran away at the age of seventeen to enlist in the Marines.Īt the same time, Shorty Fleck and Patty Sundstrom, two Canadian migrants looking to sell a trove of priceless comic books so they can use the money to settle in Florida, arrive in Laconia after their car breaks down.
He meets Elizabeth Castle, the town clerk, and Carter Carrington, the town attorney, both of whom help him deduce that no one with the name Reacher ever lived in Laconia. While traveling to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Jack Reacher takes a detour to the town of Laconia, to visit his father Stan Reacher's childhood home. Delacorte Press initially released the book on 5 November 2018. Past Tense is a novel by British writer Lee Child.This is the twenty-third book in the Jack Reacher series. Jack Reacher has been turned into a film and is also reportedly being made into a series for Amazon’s Prime service.Īccording to the Times’ report, the cover of the next Reacher novel – in a series which is published by an imprint of Random Penguin House – will read: “Lee Child with Andrew Child”, in what has been interpreted as a possible sign of the publishing company’s nerves.Print (Hardcover, Paperback), Audio, eBook And I know he’s now in safe hands.”Ĭhild has sold more than 100m books since embarking on a career as a novelist relatively late in life at 40. He added: “Readers don’t need to know about me or whoever writes the books. “It’s not as if I twisted his arm into doing it. Grant is an established author in his own right. It would take an army to bring him down Reacher had to have an afterlife after I was done,” Child told the Times.
First of all, I thought he would go out in a blaze of bullets, something like the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. “For years I thought about different ways of killing Reacher off. But Child, who was born James Grant, has reportedly set out a condition for his brother: he too must change his surname to Child.
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