title: Make Me: A Jack Reacher Novel
author:  Lee Child 
description: Lee Childs Reacher series has hit Book No. 20 with a resounding peal of wisecracking glee. Everything about it, starting with Reachers nose for bad news, is as strong as ever. . . . The big guys definitely on the upswing. The guy who writes about him is too.<b>Janet Maslin, <i>The New York Times</i></b><br /> <b><i></i></b><br />Lee Child has another winner with<i>Make Me</i>. . . . Theres a reason why Child is considered the best of the best in the thriller genre: He can take all these strange elements and clichs and make them compelling and original.<b>Associated Press</b><br /><b></b><br />A superb thriller.<b>New York <i>Daily News</i></b><br /> <b><i></i></b><br /> Childs complete command of the story makes this thriller work brilliantly.<b><i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review)</b><br /><br />Ive read all twenty of Lee Childs novels. Maybe theres something wrong with me. But I cant wait for the twenty-first.<b>Malcolm Gladwell, <i>The New Yorker</i></b><br /> <b><i></i></b><br />[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.<b><i>Dayton Daily News</i></b><br /> <b><i></i></b><br /> Child serves up wingding plots, pithy dialogue, extraordinary background on intriguing topics, and cunningly constructed suspense. But what keeps us coming backby the millionsis the chance to walk around in the skin of that big guy in the middle of everything.<b><i>The Oregonian</i></b><br /> <b><i></i></b><br /> A dark thriller . . . Lee Childs <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 wont be disappointed.<b>Minneapolis <i>Star Tribune</i></b><br /> <b><i></i></b><br /> 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.<b><i>LibraryReads </i>(Top Ten Pick)</b><br /> <b></b><br /> The reigning champ ups the ante. . . . Yes, theres breakneck action, but what gives this one its zing is the multilayered plot. . . . The beguiling Chang offers a new treat for series fans as well, and a surprise at the end will keep readers short of breath until the next installment begins.<b><i>Booklist </i>(starred review)</b><br /> <b></b><br /> This series remains as compulsively readable as ever. Child is a master of pacing, stretching out the mystery through short chapters that give rise to bursts of well-choreographed violence. . . . Of course, the biggest strength is Reacher himself: impassive, analytical, secretly romantic, and relentlessly honorable. Its impossible not to root for him. . . . Reacher is still going strong. Will satisfy fansand newcomers, too.<b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b>
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  _Make Me_ is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
  either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
  Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is
  entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2015 by Lee Child
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House,
  a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
  
  
  
  
  
  DELACORTE PRESS and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin
  Random House LLC.
  
  
  
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  
  
  
  Child, Lee.
  
  
  
  
  
  Make me : a Jack Reacher novel / Lee Child.
  
  
  
  
  
  pages ; cm
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN: 978-0-8041-