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Gone Tomorrow

Gone Tomorrow, May 2009
Jack Reacher #13
by Lee Child

Delacorte Press
432 pages
ISBN: 0385340575
EAN: 9780385340571
Hardcover
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Fresh Fiction Review

Gone Tomorrow
Lee Child

Reviewed by Vicky Gilpin
Posted April 15, 2009

Thriller

When some people see a situation they know, through training and experience, is going to go horribly wrong, they may choose to act or not to act. They may choose to convince themselves that what they "know" is incorrect, that they do not have all the facts; that they need to give the benefit of the doubt. They may choose to stare into space and ignore the events around them and to be just another bystander or just another witness. However, what happens when someone decides, after careful analysis of the situation, that he is right: something horrible is going to happen and he needs to act? What happens if he realizes, too late, that he was wrong? What happens if he realizes that he actually made the situation worse? Jack Reacher has never been a sit-back-and-pretend-the- worst-won't-happen kind of guy. Therefore, when he is on an almost empty subway and recognizes a woman displaying the checklist of a suicide bomber, he cannot choose not to act. However, his heroic efforts do not have the intended reaction. Instead, they are the catalyst for him to become embroiled in the secrets of a military man turned politician, decades-old atrocities and duplicity upon duplicity. As a matter of honor, Reacher wants to get to the bottom of the situation; when he finds himself on the run, he needs to discover the truth as a matter of survival. As the latest action-packed novel in the Reacher series, GONE TOMORROW can be enjoyed by one who has never picked up one of Child's books before, or by long-time fans.

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SUMMARY

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.

In the next few tense seconds Reacher will make a choice–and trigger an electrifying chain of events in this gritty, gripping masterwork of suspense by #1 New York Times bestseller Lee Child.

Susan Mark was the fifth passenger. She had a lonely heart, an estranged son, and a big secret. Reacher, working with a woman cop and a host of shadowy feds, wants to know just how big a hole Susan Mark was in, how many lives had already been twisted before hers, and what danger is looming around him now.

Because a race has begun through the streets of Manhattan in a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. Susan Mark’s plain little life was critical to dozens of others in Washington, California, Afghanistan . . . from a former Delta Force operator now running for the U.S. Senate, to a beautiful young woman with a fantastic story to tell–and to a host of others who have just one thing in common: They’re all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or maybe just enough to get him killed.

In a novel that slams through one hairpin surprise after another, Lee Child unleashes a thriller that spans three decades and gnaws at the heart of America . . . and for Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, it’s a mystery with only one answer–the kind that comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye.


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