Rudi Rosenharte, formerly a Stasi foreign agent, is sent to Trieste to rendezvous with his old lover and agent, Annalise Schering. This one was interesting in that it took you back to perhaps a light bulb moment in Jack Reacher's army career and life and shows you a little more of his personal life. Vassell, members of Kramer's staff, who inquire about the briefcase but leave after Reacher mentions Ms. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.

While almost everyone else is out celebrating, Reacher is the Military Police duty officer on the post when a two star general is found dead in a sleazy motel thirty miles from the base.This is one of my favorite Lee Child books - and that says a lot as I would say he IS my favorite author!

Same engaging character (Reacher,) great plot lines, wonderful supporting character development, and best of all, a nice pace to the story. I've got to say I like the books but after a while the logical flaws begin to bother me a bit and I lay them aside until I can beef up my "suspension of reality" muscles again.In theory they are everything I should enjoy in a story but in reality I find them a bit of a trudge through treacle and always about a hundred pages or so too long. At the beginning of a new decade Reacher is suddenly transferred from Panama to Little Bird then a two star general is found dead and very much naked in a motel room.

This novel shows us how Reacher got demoted from Major to Captain and shows the start of when Reacher stopped truly believing in the army. The prose goes down a skid in some places and you can actually guess a lot of the twists around the path but The enemy is a thrilling ride. Known for his hold-your-breath action scenes, Child proves equally adept at portraying how a criminal investigation uses the smallest of building blocks (a yogurt container) to construct a compelling circumstantial case.It's one thing in the corporate world but when it comes to the military or the church---or government! Lee Child's new stomach-churning, palm-sweating thriller turns back the clock to Jack Reacher's army days. Lee has three homes—an apartment in Manhattan, a country house in the south of France, and whatever airplane cabin he happens to be in while traveling between the two. But what seems like a minor problem that can be solved relatively easily, turns into something much, much larger when Reacher finds the general's widow murdered miles away in Virginia. The farewell scenes with Joe and his dying mother are superbly handled by Child, poignant and true and with death calmly presiding.

Although this is the eighth book to be published in the Jack Reacher series, it's a prequel to the others. Lieutenant Summer is eager to transfer into 110th Special Unit and she thinks she's lucky to have caught Reacher's eye.I look forward to the next flashback book which I anticipate will introduce us to his elite team while they were still in the military (Re: Bad Luck and Trouble). The Enemy' is a treat for existing fans, because it's a prequel to the other books, taking Reacher back to his days as a military policeman at the end of the Cold War, revealing key information about why he became the person he is in the later books. And it even pains me more to reveal that it was the Tom Cruise movie that motivated me to start reading the series! You know jack travels around with no change of clothes, sometimes no money and meets extremely, unbelievably, impossibly beautiful women who all fall helplessly in love with him. During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker.