This book contains violent and/or sexual content.
AuthorLee Child
NarratorJeff Harding
Duration1h 18m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, History, General Non Fiction
PublisherHarper Collins
VersionUnabridged
In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher series explores the endurance of heroes from Achilles to Bond, showing us how this age-old myth is a fundamental part of what makes us human. He demonstrates how hero stories continue to shape our world - arguing that we need them now more than ever. From the Stone Age to the Greek Tragedies, from Shakespeare to Robin Hood, we have always had our heroes. The hero is at the centre of formative myths in every culture and persists to this day in world-conquering books, films and TV shows. But why do these characters continue to inspire us, and why are they so central to storytelling? Scalpel-sharp on the roots of storytelling and enlightening on the history and science of myth, The Hero is essential reading for anyone trying to write or understand fiction. Child teaches us how these stories still shape our minds and behaviour in an increasingly confusing modern world, and with his trademark concision and wit, demonstrates that however civilised we get, we'll always need heroes.
Jack Reacher Series Book 1: Killing Floor
Author: Lee Child
Author Lee Child
Narrator Dick Hill
SeriesJack Reacher, Book 1
Duration 14h 54m
Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular Jack Reacher series. It presents Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs, the perfect action hero. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about t...
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Jack Reacher Series Book 4: The Visitor
Author: Lee Child
Author Lee Child
Narrator Kerry Shale
SeriesJack Reacher, Book 4
Duration 3h 37m
Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook have a lot in common. Both were army high-flyers. Both were acquainted with Jack Reacher. Both were forced to resign from the service. Now they're both dead. Found in their own homes, naked, in a bath full of paint. Apparent victims of an army man. A loner, a smart guy with a score to settle, a ruthl...
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Jack Reacher Series Book 16: Second Son
Author: Lee Child
Author Lee Child
Narrator Kerry Shale
SeriesJack Reacher, Book 16
Duration 1h 14m
Ever wondered what early experiences shaped Reacher's explosive career as butt-kicker supreme, the one-man guided-missile battler for justice? In this original new story, Lee Child looks back on an incident in his hero Jack Reacher's teenage years as the younger son of a tough career US Marine, on a faraway military base in the Pacific.
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Jack Reacher Series Book 3: Tripwire
Author: Lee Child
Author Lee Child
Narrator Garrick Hagon
SeriesJack Reacher, Book 3
Duration 15h 48m
For Jack Reacher being invisible has become a habit. He spends his days digging swimming pools by hand and his nights as the bouncer in the local strip club in the Florida Keys. He doesn't want to be found. But someone has sent a private detective to seek him out. Then Reacher finds the guy beaten to death with his fingertips sliced off. It's time...
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Jack Reacher Series Book 5: One Shot
Author: Lee Child
Author Lee Child
Narrator Jeff Harding
SeriesJack Reacher, Book 9
Duration 12h 51m
A lone gunman unleashes pandemonium when he shoots into a crowd of people in a public plaza in Indiana. Five people are killed in cold blood, shot through the head. But he leaves a perfect trail of evidence behind him, and soon the local police chief tracks him down. After his arrest, the shooter's only words are, 'Get Jack Reacher for me.' What co...
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Jack Reacher Series Book 7: Persuader
Author: Lee Child
Author Lee Child
Narrator Kerry Shale
SeriesJack Reacher, Book 7
Duration 5h 30m
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 agonizing past. Never apologize. 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...
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Jack Reacher Series Book 19: Not A Drill
Author: Lee Child
Author Lee Child
Narrator Kerry Shale
SeriesJack Reacher, Book 19
Duration 1h 13m
The brand new Jack Reacher short story, published as a digital exclusive. The tiny town of Naismith has nothing going for it - except the start of a wilderness trail through Maine's ancient forests. But one day the trail is suddenly closed by county police. No reason is given. Rumours start - is there something in the woods that no one must see? Th...
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Jack Reacher Series Book 20: Small Wars
Author: Lee Child
Author Lee Child
Narrator Kerry Shale
SeriesJack Reacher, Book 20
Duration 1h 17m
In this new ebook exclusive short story, #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Lee Child goes back to 1989, when Jack Reacher is serving as an officer in the military police. A young lieutenant colonel, in a stylish handmade uniform, roars through the damp woods of Georgia in her new silver Porsche - until she meets a very tall soldier with a broken-d...
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Jack Reacher Series Book 11: Bad Luck and Trouble
Author: Lee Child
Author Lee Child
Narrator Jeff Harding
SeriesJack Reacher, Book 11
Duration 12h 44m
The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher's drifter life in a practical way. In addition to his folding toothbrush, he now needs to carry photo ID to get around. Yet he is still as close to untraceable as a human being in America can get. So when a member of his old Army unit manages to get a message to him, he knows it has to be deadly serious. The...
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Jack Reacher Series Book 6: Without Fail
Author: Lee Child
Author Lee Child
Narrator Kerry Shale
SeriesJack Reacher, Book 6
Duration 5h 36m
No job, no ID, no last known address. But he never turns down a plea for help. Now a woman tracks him down. A woman serving at the very heart of US power. A woman who needs Reacher's assistance in her new job. Her job? Protecting the Vice-President of the United States. Her problem? Someone wants the VP dead.
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