Jeff Harding

'61 Hours', featuring the much-loved maverick hero Jack Reacher, was published in March 2010. It ended on a cliff-hanger. What happened to Reacher? Will this new novel provide the answer?

Featuring Jack Reacher, hero of the blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise. From Hope to Despair. Between two small towns in Colorado, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. All Jack Reacher wants is a cup of coffee.What he gets are four redneck deputies, a vagrancy charge and a trip back to the line. But Reacher is a big man, and he's in shape. No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing, except bloody-minded curiosity. What are the secrets the locals...

In 1950, a steam locomotive rises from the waters of a Montana lake, revealing the remains of three men who died 44 years before. In 1906, no-nonsense detective Isaac Bell is called in to investigate a string of brutal armed robberies.

Detective Isaac Bell embarks on his most dangerous case yet. Aviation is still in its infancy, and Preston Whiteway is offering 50,000 to the first pilot to cross America in less than 50 days. One of the candidates is Josephine Frost.

Never forgive, never forget. Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. But he has a burning desire to right wrongs - and rewrite his own agonising past. Never apologise. Never explain. When Reacher witnesses a brutal kidnap attempt, he takes the law into his own hands. But a cop dies. Has Reacher lost his sense of right and wrong?.