Books with author Lee Child New York Times Bestselling Author

For 3,000 years, China's merchants have fled tyrannical dynasties and warlords to make their fortunes overseas. Seagrave reveals for the first time the invisible empire of the Overseas Chinese in a dozen countries, and how its secret societies control over $2-trillion. Richly researched, his book recounts comic and exciting episodes over the centuries, filled with piracy, treachery, adventure -- including his discovery that Chinese Admiral Cheng Ho was the inspiration for legends of Sinbad the Sailor. Now, Seagrave shows how the tide has reversed, and the Overseas Chinese have gone home to help create China's rich Renaissance at the start of what is called "The Chinese Century".

Jack Reacher, hailed as "a wonderfully epic hero" by People, confronts Texan hatred and hidden crimes in this superb new thriller. Ex-military cop Jack Reacher returns in this latest in the award-winning series critics call "spectacular" (The Seattle Times), "relentless" (Denver Post), and "perfect" (The New York Times Book Review). Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas and getting desperate for a ride. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up. She's called Carmen. She's a good-looking young woman, she has a beautiful little girl . . .and she has married into the wrong family. They're called the Greers. They're a bitter and miserly clan, and they've made her life a living hell. Worse, her monster of a husband is soon due out of prison. So she needs protection, and she needs it now. Lawyers can't help. Cops can't be trusted. So Reacher goes home with her to the lonely ranch where nothing is as it seems, and where evil swirls around them like dust in a storm. Within days, Carmen's husband is dead - and simmering secrets send Echo, Texas, up in flames.

In a Chicago suburb, a dentist is met in his office parking lot by three men and ordered into the trunk of his Lexus. On a downtown sidewalk, Jack Reacher and an unknown woman are abducted in broad daylight by two men - practiced and confident - who stop them at gunpoint and hustle them into the same sedan. Then Reacher and the woman are switched into a second vehicle and hauled away, leaving the dentist bound and gagged inside his car with the woman's abandoned possessions, two gallons of gasoline...and a burning match.

High-flying army career women Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook are both victims of sexual harassment by their superiors. And now they're both dead. Jack Reacher, former US military cop, is a smart guy, a loner and a drifter. He knew both the victims. For FBI Agent-in-Charge Nelson Blake, he's the perfect match. He's sure only Reacher has the answers to their burning questions: how did these women die? And why? Award-winning writer Lee Child proves again that he is more than a match for the genre's established names - and that Jack Reacher is a uniquely appealing hero, sensitive, unpredictable, dangerous, but always one step ahead.

Former military policeman Jack Reacher is not pleased when Costello, a private detective, comes asking questions about him. Determined to keep out of trouble, Reacher hides his identity. So when he finds Costello dead with his fingertips sliced off, he realizes it is time to move on. But who was Costello's employer, the mysterious Mrs Jacob? And why is she determined to find Reacher?