Lee Child - 61 Hours, A Fast Paced Thriller Novel of Jack Reacher Series

Lee Child is a British crime story author whose most significant protagonist is Jack Reacher, a charismatic policeman with a military past. 61 Hours is preceding Child’s latest book published, Worth Dying For. Lee Child’s next Reacher novel will be released in the fall of 2011.



Near a South Dakota town, Bolton, a tour bus winds up trapped in a snowy bank. Jack Reacher, who happens to be amongst the passengers, helps local policemen free the others. Soon it turns out that one of the largest prisons of the country is there in this particular town. On the other hand, near Bolton, in an abandoned, run-down military base, a gang of bikers gather, since their leader is arrested on drug charges. A Mexican drug dealer also has to do something with the case. An eyewitness, a respectable elderly lady from Bolton, Janet Salter, is protected by the police, however, someone kills her, along with the deputy chief, Andrew Peterson. The strange thing is that their murderers are neither the bikers nor the Mexican drug dealer but a local policeman. Reacher has sixty-one hours to solve the case before the hell breaks loose…