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  • The Enemy

  • A Jack Reacher Novel
  • Written by: Lee Child
  • Narrated by: Dick Hill
  • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (123 ratings)

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The Enemy

Written by: Lee Child
Narrated by: Dick Hill
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Publisher's Summary

Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier’s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army’s brightest stars. But in every cop’s life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.

New Year’s Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina “hot-sheets” motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. But this situation can’t be controlled. Within hours the general’s wife is murdered hundreds of miles away. Then the dominoes really start to fall.

Two Special Forces soldiers - the toughest of the tough - are taken down, one at a time. Top military commanders are moved from place to place in a bizarre game of chess. And somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the US Army, Jack Reacher - an ordinarily untouchable investigator for the 110th Special Unit - is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have.

But Reacher won’t quit. He’s fighting a new kind of war. And he’s taking a young female lieutenant with him on a deadly hunt that leads them from the ragged edges of a rural army post to the winding streets of Paris to a confrontation with an enemy he didn’t know he had. With his French-born mother dying - and divulging to her son one last, stunning secret - Reacher is forced to question everything he once believed…about his family, his career, his loyalties - and himself. Because this soldier’s son is on his way into the darkness, where he finds a tangled drama of desperate desires and violent death - and a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.

Number Eight in the Jack Reacher series

©2004 Lee Child (P)2021 Random House Audio
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What the critics say

"A fabulously suspenseful prequel.... [Lee Child's] best so far." (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)

"Textured, swift, and told in Reacher's inimitably tough voice… Child has few peers in thrillerdom." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

"The best showcase of Child's talent to date...one of the best thriller writers at work." (Rocky Mountain News)

"The Enemy sizzles with suspense and action. Child sets a breathless pace." (Orlando Sentinel)

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The enemy

Best read I have had in a long while. So glad I started the series

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Great book

Held my interest. Enjoyed it very much.

Love the Jack Reacher series. I find the narration to to be very good.

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Excellent book

This was my first audiobook and I really enjoyed it. Will be continuing to listen to more of them

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Great story lousy ending

Was disappointed in the ending as I have read all of his latest books and he talks about his long time in the 110 th devision and his old sergeant has been in several of his books yet here he says that he is demoted to captain and he never returns to the 110th or sees his sergeant again. Up to that point it was a great book

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Great listen

This book had humour and was well spoken. Enjoyable book for sure. Can’t wait for another one

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Best one since the first!

Best story since the first. They have sped up the narration it seems and not as bad anymore

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Good Book

I had a hard time turning it off. Child and Hill are a good combination. The reoccurring thyme is “Evil can only prevail, if the good ones do nothing”. Words to live by for Reacher.

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Dick Hill best narrator for Reacher

Simple yet complex and totally baffling with a oh yeah moment...Another great story brilliantly told ...can't wait to start my next Reacher story!

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Another Great Book

Whenever I get disappointed by the works of my other favourite authors, I know I can come back to Jack Reacher and have a great story. I certainly haven’t read the books in order but they have all been great. The narrator is also great. Thoroughly enjoyed the story.

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Fantastic Reader, was skeptical at first....

was skeptical at first but the narrator was great. I enjoy the audio filters they add when someone was talking on the phone or radio.

as for the story, it was great, and real awesome to finally read about Joe before he dies and Teachers actually time in as an MP was great too. Good sense of mystery but as always, the romantic interest made me question things since he hooks up with a subordinate but that's also why we read these action man stories.

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