The Secret
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3.5 • 82 Ratings
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- £9.99
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient wakes to find two strangers by his bed.
They show him a list of names and ask a simple but impossible question. Minutes later he falls to his death from his twelfth-floor window - a fall which generates some unexpected attention.
That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher, recently demoted from Major, is assigned as the Army's representative. If he gets a result, great. If not, he's a convenient fall guy.
Reacher may be an exceptional military investigator, but office politics aren't what gets him up in the morning. As he races to identify a cold-blooded killer and uncover a secret that stretches back 23 years, he must navigate around his new partners.
Will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way . . . or his way?
PRAISE FOR THE JACK REACHER SERIES
'There's only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.' MICK HERRON
'Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of.' KEN FOLLETT
'Everyone needs to kick some butt sometimes, even if it's just imaginary.' JOJO MOYES
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Secret is the 28th book in the internationally bestselling series.
©2023 Andrew Child & Lee Child (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Customer Reviews
A filler
This novel was not a thrilling as the previous Jack Reacher novels.
Almost like watching a UKTV long, running soap series. You watch or listen to it because you’ve been watching all of the others.
But if I had to make the decision of whether to get into the Jack Reacher novels, because of this one, I wouldn’t bother.
It just lacked excitement and was somewhat predictable.
Even when, explaining the endgame, and the shots fired that equated to his reasoning, had no Aha moment.
- I’ll be giving the books a miss in the future - and wait them to hit the TV screens. Might go back and reread the old ones
The Secret
I had an an audio version ,
The accent of the reader was not the Reachers voice I would envisaged , aggressive in tone most of the time , no black or white in the tone of his voice. It spoiled the story.
Reacher was not the main protagonist in the story.
This story wasn’t for me.
I have read all the Reacher books and I was very disappointed with The Secret .
Not up to Lee Child standard, in my opinion .