This edition includes an excerpt of Lee Child’s novel Blue Moon. Then Reacher makes a shocking discovery: The present can be tough, but the past can be tense. He’s always known his father left and never returned, but now Reacher wonders, Was he ever there in the first place? As Reacher explores his father’s life, and as the Canadians face lethal dangers, strands of different stories begin to merge. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Past Tense: A Jack Reacher Novel. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. He’s told no one named Reacher ever lived in town. Past Tense: A Jack Reacher Novel - Kindle edition by Child, Lee. The next morning, in the city clerk’s office, Reacher asks about the old family home.
It’s a strange place, but it’s all there is. Now they’re stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. Two young Canadians had been on their way to New York City to sell a treasure. At the same moment, in the same isolated area, a car breaks down. He thinks, What’s one extra day? He takes the detour. On a country road deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been: the town where his father was born. He plans to follow the sun on an epic trip across America, from Maine to California. Jack Reacher hits the pavement and sticks out his thumb.
While Reacher is dealing with a revenge posse, the Canadian couple discover just how strange their motel is.
But he does stir up a world of trouble when he steps in to help a woman under attack and gives her assailant-the son of a well-connected underworld figure-a humiliating beating. Reacher uncovers few traces of his father’s existence, other than a 75-year-old assault case in which Stan Reacher is named. The concision, procedural chops and terse, surprising action of Past Tense make it a fantastic read. Reacher is a man for whom the phrase moral compass was invented: His code determines his direction. Early in bestseller Child’s superb 23rd Jack Reacher novel (after 2017’s The Midnight Line), the peripatetic Reacher reaches a fork in a road in rural New Hampshire he chooses the path heading to Laconia, “his late father’s place of birth.” At the same time, just 30 miles away, a young Canadian couple on their way south have car trouble and stop at a small motel, finding they’re apparently its only guests. Lee Child shows no signs of slowing down.
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