title: Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, No. 1)
author:  Lee Child 
description: When Jack Reacher suddenly decides to ask a Greyhound bus driver to let him off near the town of Margrave, Georgia, he thinks it's because his brother once mentioned that the famed blues guitarist Blind Blake died there. But it doesn't take long for the footloose ex-military policeman to discover that there are plenty of strange--and very dangerous--things going on behind Margrave's manicured lawns and clean streets that demand his attention. This first thriller by a former television writer features some of the best-written scenes of action in recent memory, a crash course in currency and counterfeiting, and a hero who is just begging to be called on for an encore.
zlib_text: Praise for 
  KILLING FLOOR
  “Violent and visceral…A cut above…Reacher is as tough as he is resourceful. An exciting, edge-of-
  the-chair account.”
  —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. And throws in Southern atmosphere to die for. Here’s to more
  of the same.”
  —Jeffery Deaver, author of The Bone Collector
  “Child serves up 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…Two scenes of brutal violence in a nearby prison are tendered
  with exquisit