In Lee Child’s astonishing new thriller, ex–military cop Reacher sees more than most people would...and because of that, he’s thrust into an explosive situation that’s about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth—and save two innocent lives—is to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way….
Kinsey Millhone steps into a dead man's shoes when she is hired by attorney Lonnie Kingman to find fresh evidence against a defendent in a five-year-old murder case. David Barney had been acquitted of shooting his wife when the prosecution failed to find him guilty "beyond reasonable doubt".
First published in 1940, The Ox-Bow Incident is a gritty serious tale of frontier life and mob violence in the American West during 1885. Three innocent men are lynched when law and order are forsaken.
Slim Mackenzie knows that they are out there, lurking, waiting and plotting their ultimate triumph. He is blessed - or cursed - by twilight eyes. He can see the diabolical others through their innocent human disguise. He's already killed one of them. And he'll kill again.
Protestant by inclination, Jane is a helpless pawn caught up in the scheming of her parents and the ambitious Duke of Northumberland. Their doomed plotting leads to heads rolling and the lighting of the first of many fires of Protestant martyrdom by Catholic Queen Mary. Jane Grey pays the ultimate price, with her head on the block - courageously refusing Queen Mary's offer of a reprieve if she embraces Catholicism. She was queen in name for nine days.
Told as it is from many different viewpoints, our sympathy is aroused for Jane and we share her dread and horror of an untimely death at the age of sixteen.
