Past Tense: (Jack Reacher 23) - Softcover

"Absolutely loved Past Tense – Lee Child just gets better and better, which is a very rare quality in a writer of a long-run series. Whip smart, always compelling, always fun, he is dangerously addictive." (Peter James)

"Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of" (Ken Follett)

"I loved it. One of the best." (Jonathan Ross)

"It’s Lee Child. Why would you not read it?" (Karin Slaughter)

"Sometimes you just want someone who can beat the s*** out of people! I pick up Jack Reacher when I’m in the mood for someone big to solve my problems" (Patricia Cornwell)

The most hotly anticipated paperback thriller of 2019 follows our hero Jack Reacher on a quest into his father's past, and climaxes in the most stomach-clenching, hair-raising, blood-curdling ticking time bomb of an adventure yet.

The present can be tense . . .

Two young Canadians trying to get to New York City are stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. Before long they’re trapped in an ominous game of life and death.

But the past can be worse . . .

Jack Reacher is on an epic road trip across America. He doesn’t get far. Deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. But when he arrives he is told no one named Reacher ever lived there. Now he wonders: who’s lying?

As the tension ratchets up and these two stories begin to entwine, the stakes have never been higher for Reacher.

That’s for damn sure.