Make Me: A Jack Reacher Novel

<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER * <b>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY <i>LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, </i>AND <i>SUSPENSE MAGAZINE</i></b> * Stephen King calls Jack Reacher &quot;the coolest continuing series character&quot; - and now he's back in this masterly new thriller from Lee Child.</b><br><br> <i>&quot;Why is this town called Mother's Rest?&quot;</i> 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 Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal.<br><br> Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, and there's something about Chang . . . so he teams up with her and starts to ask around. He thinks: How bad can this thing be? But before long he's plunged into a desperate race through LA, Chicago, Phoenix, and San Francisco, and through the hidden parts of the internet, up against thugs and assassins every step of the way - right back to where he started, in Mother's Rest, where he must confront the worst nightmare he could imagine.<br><br> Walking away would have been easier. But as always, Reacher's rule is: If you want me to stop, you're going to have to make me.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>Make Me</i></b><br><br> &quot;Child's Reacher series has hit Book No. 20 with a resounding peal of wisecracking glee. Everything about it, starting with Reacher's nose for bad news, is as strong as ever. . . . The big guy's definitely on the upswing. The guy who writes about him is too.&quot;<b> - Janet Maslin, <i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br>&quot;Another winner . . . There's a reason why Child is considered the best of the best in the thriller genre: He can take all these strange elements and clichés and make them compelling and original.&quot;<b> - Associated Press</b><br><br>&quot;A superb thriller.&quot;<b> - New York <i>Daily News</i></b><br><br> &quot;Child's complete command of the story makes this thriller work brilliantly.&quot;<b> - <i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review) </b><br><br>&quot;I've read all twenty of Lee Child's novels. Maybe there's something wrong with me. But I can't wait for the twenty-first.&quot;<b> - Malcolm Gladwell, <i>The New Yorker</i></b><br><br> &quot;[The Reacher series] is the current gold standard in the genre. . . . In <i>Make Me</i> Lee Child delivers another Jack Reacher specialty; the total knockout.&quot;<b> - <i>Dayton Daily News</i></b><br><br> &quot;Child serves up wingding plots, pithy dialogue, extraordinary background on intriguing topics, and cunningly constructed suspense. But what keeps us coming back - by the millions - is the chance to walk around in the skin of that big guy in the middle of everything.&quot;<b> - <i>The Oregonian</i></b><br><br> &quot;A dark thriller . . . Lee Child's <i>Make Me,</i> the twentieth in his wildly popular Jack Reacher series, delivers exactly what readers have come to expect from the perennial bestselling author: interesting characters, tight plots and page-turning action. . . . Readers won't be disappointed.&quot;<b> - Minneapolis <i>Star Tribune</i></b><br><br> &quot;Jack Reacher is back. . . . Readers new to this series will find this book a good starting point, and fans will be pleased to see Jack again.&quot;<b> - <i>LibraryReads </i>(Top Ten Pick) </b><br><br> &quot;The reigning champ ups the ante.&quot;<b> - <i>BOOKLIST </i>(starred review) </b><br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>