Killing Floor
A Jack Reacher Novel. Winner of the Anthony Award 1998, Kategorie Best First Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
THE FIRST JACK REACHER NOVEL
The bestselling novel featuring the "wonderfully epic hero"(People) who inspired the hit films Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He's just passing through...
The bestselling novel featuring the "wonderfully epic hero"(People) who inspired the hit films Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He's just passing through...
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THE FIRST JACK REACHER NOVELThe bestselling novel featuring the "wonderfully epic hero"(People) who inspired the hit films Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He's just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he's arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn't kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn't stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.
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KILLING FLOOR
Lee Child
Penguin Books Ltd., Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.
Copyright © 1997 by Lee Child.
All rights reserved.
PUBLISHING HISTORY
eBook ISBN: 978-1-101-14705-4
The Library of Congress has catalogued the G. P. Putnam s Sons
KILLING FLOOR
Special excerpt from Die Trying
INTRODUCTION
Jack Reacher made his first appearance in print on March 17, 1997 St. Patrick s Day when Putnam published Killing Floor in the United States, which was Reacher s and my debut. But I can trace his, and the book s, genesis backward at least to New Year s Eve 1988. Back then I worked for a commercial television station in Manchester, England. I was eleven years into a career as a presentation director, which was a little like an air traffic controller for the network airwaves. In February 1988, the UK commercial network had started twenty-four-hour broadcasting. For a year before that, management had been talking about how to man the new expanded commitment. None of us really wanted to work nights. Management didn t really want to hire extra people. End of story. Stalemate. Impasse. What broke it was the offer of a huge raise. We took it, and by New Year s Eve we were ten fat and happy months into the new contract. I went to a party, but didn t feel much like celebrating. Not that I wasn t content in the short term I
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sleep better by day than night, and I like being up and about when the world is quiet and lonely, and for sure I was having a ball with the new salary. But I knew in my bones that management resented the raise, and I knew that the new contract was in fact the beginning of the end. Sooner or later, we would all be fired in revenge. I felt it was only a matter of time. Nobody agreed with me, except one woman. At the party, in a quiet moment, she asked me, What are you going to do when this is all over?
I said, I m going to write books.
Why that answer? And why then?
I had always been an insatiable reader. All genres, all the time, but very unstructured. I naturally gravitated toward crime, adventure, and thrillers, but for a long time in the UK we lacked genre stores and fan magazines, and of course the Internet hadn t started yet, so there was no effective network capable of leading a reader from one thing to the next. As a result, I had come across some very obscure stuff, while being completely ignorant of many major figures. For instance, in February 1988 while the ink was still drying on our new TV contracts I took a vacation in the Yucatán. I flew back via Miami, and picked up John D. MacDonald s The Lonely Silver Rain at the bookstall in the airport. I had never heard of MacDonald or Travis McGee. I read the book on the plane back to London and loved it. I thought, I wonder if it s part of a series? Hah! I was back in the States at Easter that year and bought every McGee title I could find, which added up to about a linear yard s worth.
Nobody needs me to sing MacDonald s praises, but that yard of books did more for me than provide excellent entertainment. For some reason the McGee books spoke to me like textbooks. I felt I could see what MacDonald was doing, and why, and how, as if I
I said, I m going to write books.
Why that answer? And why then?
I had always been an insatiable reader. All genres, all the time, but very unstructured. I naturally gravitated toward crime, adventure, and thrillers, but for a long time in the UK we lacked genre stores and fan magazines, and of course the Internet hadn t started yet, so there was no effective network capable of leading a reader from one thing to the next. As a result, I had come across some very obscure stuff, while being completely ignorant of many major figures. For instance, in February 1988 while the ink was still drying on our new TV contracts I took a vacation in the Yucatán. I flew back via Miami, and picked up John D. MacDonald s The Lonely Silver Rain at the bookstall in the airport. I had never heard of MacDonald or Travis McGee. I read the book on the plane back to London and loved it. I thought, I wonder if it s part of a series? Hah! I was back in the States at Easter that year and bought every McGee title I could find, which added up to about a linear yard s worth.
Nobody needs me to sing MacDonald s praises, but that yard of books did more for me than provide excellent entertainment. For some reason the McGee books spoke to me like textbooks. I felt I could see what MacDonald was doing, and why, and how, as if I
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Lee Child
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- Autor: Lee Child
- 2012, 2nd ed., 576 Seiten, Maße: 10,8 x 19 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Jove
- ISBN-10: 0515153656
- ISBN-13: 9780515153651
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.07.2011
Sprache:
Englisch
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Praise for Killing Floor A People Magazine Page-Turner
A Barry Award winner
An Anthony Award winner
All [Jack Reacher novels] are ripping yarns, but.... Killing Floor wins awards for Best Corrupt Southern Town in a Summer Novel and Best Exploding Warehouse. Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly
Combines high suspense with almost nonstop action. Reacher is a wonderfully epic hero: tough, taciturn, yet vulnerable. People
Great style and careful plotting. The violence is brutal depicted with the kind of detail that builds dread and suspense. The New York Times
A complex thriller with layer upon layer of mystery and violence and intrigue A long unsettling trip that leaves your brain buzzing and your stomach knotted. The author pens nightmarish images as casually as an ordinary writer would dot an i or cross a t . The Philadelphia Inquirer
A tough, compelling thriller with characters who jump off the page. Houston Chronicle
Violent and visceral A cut above Reacher is as tough as he is resourceful. An exciting, edge-of-the-chair account. Compelling and relentlessly suspenseful. The Denver Post
Some novelists can write top-notch action and some can create compelling mysteries, yet it s rare to find both of those skills displayed in a single book. Lee Child s Killing Floor is one of them. But not content with writing a rip-roaring thriller, Child also gives us one of the truly memorable tough-guy heroes in recent fiction: Jack Reacher. Jeffery Deaver
A big, rangy plot, menace as palpable as a ticking bomb, and enough battered corpses to make an undertaker grin. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Beautifully detailed action scenes and fascinating arcana about currency and counterfeiting [A] taut and tough-minded first novel. Publishers Weekly
I love the larger-than-life hero, Jack Reacher. I grew up a fan of John Wayne s and Clint Eastwood s movies, and it s great to see a man of their stature back in
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business. Lee Child grabs you with the first line and never loosens his grip. Killing Floor is a terrific ride. Nevada Barr
This is a kick-ass first novel by the very talented Lee Child. Hero Jack Reacher has presence and dimension a man you definitely want on your side. Child has a sure touch and a strong voice. Definitely a talent to watch. Lynn S. Hightower
This is a kick-ass first novel by the very talented Lee Child. Hero Jack Reacher has presence and dimension a man you definitely want on your side. Child has a sure touch and a strong voice. Definitely a talent to watch. Lynn S. Hightower
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