title: The Midnight Line: A Jack Reacher Novel
author:  Lee Child 
description: Each year Lee Child comes up with another Reacher. Each year I lap it up. Love it . . . Here, there is something subversive as well as page-turning. . . . I dont know another author so skilled at making me turn the page, at putting me in the thick of it all.<b><i>The Times</i> </b><br /><br /> Reacher is the purest distillation of the white knight in contemporary mystery fiction. This novel is a tightly plotted ride with characters who will break your heart and linger after you close the book.<b><i>Mystery Scene</i></b><br /> <br /> Reacher [is] one of the most alluring and popular characters in contemporary fiction. . . . As always in a Child novel, pace is fast, twists and turns surprise, characters are well-developed, dialogue is exactly right, and the plot is very plausible. . . . Highly entertaining . . . This one is among the best [in the series]. It doesnt matter in what order you read them since each stands entirely on its own.<b><i>The Washington Times</i></b><br /> <br /> A timely, affecting, suspenseful and morally complex thriller. . . . One of the best thrillers Ive read this year.<b><i>The Washington Post</i></b><br /> <br /> Jack Reacher has become arguably the most iconic fictional hero we have.<b><i>Mens Health</i></b><br /> <br /> Compelling and moving . . . bold and mysterious.<b><i>Associated Press</i></b><br /> <br /> This, Childs twenty-second book in the series, has heart to spare, and it proves the franchise has plenty of gas left in its tank.<b><i>Minneapolis Star-Tribune</i></b><br /><br />Compulsively readable.<b><i>Publishers Weekly</i>(starred review)</b><br /><br />[A] multifaceted novel about dealing with the unthinkable . . . Its automatic: Reacher gets off a bus, and Child lands on the<i>New York Times</i>bestseller list.<b><i>Booklist</i></b><br /><br />The book is very smart . . . [and] suggests something that has not been visible in the series previous entries: a creeping sadness in Reachers wanderings that, set here among the vast and empty landscapes of Wyoming, resembles the peculiarly solitary loneliness of the classic American hero. This return to form is also a hint of new ground to be covered.<b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br /><br />Child does a stellar job this time by not following his customary formula; his usually stoic hero who rarely displays softness and compassion is hit hard emotionally by this case.<b><i>Library Journal</i> (starred review)</b>
zlib_text: Contents
  Title Page
  Dedication
   
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  Chapter 14
  Chapter 15
  
  Chapter 16
  Chapter 17
   
  About the Author
  Also by Lee Child
  Copyright Page
  
  For Maggie Griffin
  Jack Reacher’s first and best friend in America
  
  CHAPTER 1
  Friday. Five o’clock in the afternoon. Maybe the hardest time to
  move unobserved through a city. Or maybe the easiest. Because at five
  o’clock on a Friday nobody pays attention to anything. Except the road
  ahead.
  The man with the rifle drove north. Not fast, not slow. Not drawing
  attention. Not standing out. He was in a light-colored minivan that had seen
  better days. He was alone behind the wheel. He was wearing a light-colored
  raincoat and the kind of shapeless light-colored beanie hat that old guys
  wear on the golf course when the sun is out or the rain is falling. The hat
  had a two-tone red band all around it. It was pulled down low. The coat wa