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USA Today Bestselling series! The next gripping Hunt for Jack Reacher Thriller from Diane Capri!"Make some coffee. You'll read all night." Lee ChildImpatient with FBI Special Agent Kim Otto's lack of progress, her boss seeks to show her how it's done.Cooper drags Otto to Dallas where he sets a trap to lure Jack Reacher with three carrots: challenge, revenge, and pride.When a full scale riot breaks out at the prominent politician's funeral, Otto uncovers a Machiavellian plot to execute his political rival.A plot Reacher unwittingly put in motion.Ten years ago, in Lee Child's Echo Burning, Reacher was recruited to kill a stranger. He refused the mission but teamed up with two women to expose stomach-churning mass slaughter.Now, Otto and Michael Flint race to find the executioner who refuses to relinquish his ill-gotten legacy.Filled with twists and turns to keep you breathless until the explosive finale, can Otto and Reacher work together to stop the heinous assassins before it's too late?Lee Child Gives Diane Capri Two Thumbs Up!"Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too. Kim Otto is a great, great character - I love her." -Lee Child, #1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers including The Killing Floor, Echo Burning, and No Plan B.The Hunt for Jack Reacher series enthralls fans of John Grisham, Lee Child, David Baldacci, Michael Connelly, Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, John Sandford, and more: "Diane writes like the maestro of the jigsaw puzzle. Sit back in your favorite easy chair, pour a glass of crisp white wine, and enter her devilishly clever world." -David Hagberg, New York Times Bestselling Author of Kirk McGarvey Thrillers"Expertise shines on every page." -Margaret Maron, Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Award Winning MWA Past President and MWA Grand MasterReaders Love the Hunt for Jack Reacher Series and Diane Capri: "All Child fans should give it a try!"Award winning New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI Does It Again in another Blockbuster Hunt for Jack Reacher Series Novel

FBI Special Agent Kim Otto handles the fallout from Lee Child's The Midnight Line. She chases clues from Chicago deep into Mexico where she fights to the death in the gripping conclusion. Will Jack Reacher be there when she needs him?

FBI Special Agent Kim Otto's off-the-books assignment leads to members of Jack Reacher's elite military unit. Reacher destroyed a team of arms dealers in Lee Child's Bad Luck and Trouble. Now, his legacy plunges Otto into a grudge war.

The next gripping Hunt for Jack Reacher Thriller from Diane Capri! "Make some coffee. You'll read all night." Lee Child FBI Special Agent Kim Otto is hot on Jack Reacher's trail as he speeds away from Chicago. Since Reacher hooked up with escaped car thief Petey Burns in South Dakota, he's had a steady ride. Destination unknown, but traceable. Otto's manhunt is derailed when she learns Jack Reacher's nephew is in trouble. Jake and his mother have disappeared, leaving a dead man behind. Seven years ago, Jack Reacher teamed up with the CO of his old unit, Major Susan Turner, to demolish a drug smuggling operation in Lee Child's Never Go Back. Now, Otto and Turner race to save Reacher's nephew from men who seek to deliver vengeance first. Can Otto find them all before it's too late? "Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too. Kim Otto is a great, great character - I love her." Lee Child, #1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers including A Wanted Man and The Sentinel.The Hunt for Jack Reacher series enthralls fans of John Grisham, Lee Child, David Baldacci, Michael Connelly, Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, and more: "Diane writes like the maestro of the jigsaw puzzle. Sit back in your favorite easy chair, pour a glass of crisp white wine, and enter her devilishly clever world." David Hagberg, New York Times Bestselling Author of Kirk McGarvey Thrillers"Expertise shines on every page." Margaret Maron, Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Award Winning MWA Past President and MWA Grand Master Readers Love the Hunt for Jack Reacher Series and Diane Capri: "I have been a Reacher fan for years and was excited when I heard of Diane Capri's take on 'Finding Reacher'.""Diane Capri's series is a good companion to Child's Reacher books and recaptures the flavor of the Reacher mystique. I am waiting anxiously for the next book in the series and the next and the next, and so on." "All Child fans should give it a try!" Award winning New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI Does It Again in another Blockbuster Hunt for Jack Reacher Series Novel

The last time Jack Reacher passed through South Dakota, almost everyone close to him was savagely murdered. Some say Reacher killed them. Maybe he did. But one ruthless gangster survived.FBI Special Agent Kim Otto lands in the middle of his desperate escape to freedom. She joins law enforcement to recapture the brutal felon before he disappears forever. Agent Otto is no longer working alone. She wanted a new partner and now she's got one. William Burke, an ex-SEAL formerly assigned to the Hostage Rescue Team, should have been the answer to all of her problems. But Burke's got a cloud on his record. How will his past impact their mission? 61 Hours was almost the death of Jack Reacher. Jack Frost might finish the job.

After Lee Child's The Hard Way, Jack Reacher disappeared. Now, a corrupt Army General is determined to ensure Reacher reaps what he sowed. Can Agent Otto uncover Reacher's secrets and keep his friends alive? Or will they all die trying?

Jack Reacher: Friend or Enemy? We first met Lee Child's Jack Reacher in Killing Floor. Now, Reacher still lives off the grid, until trouble finds him, then he does whatever it takes, much to the delight of readers and the dismay of villains.

FBI Special Agent Kim Otto discovers the perfect bait to lure Jack Reacher. He found his roots and war in Lee Child's Past Tense. Now, will he protect his nephew from a ruthless killer? Agent Otto bets on Reacher and puts her life on the line.

The next gripping Hunt for Jack Reacher Thriller from Diane Capri! "Make some coffee. You'll read all night." Lee Child Some things are worth dying for. Rescuing innocents is one of them.FBI Special Agent Kim Otto won't believe Reacher's dead until she sees his body for herself. Which she hasn't. Yet.But if Reacher's not dead, where is he? Seven years ago, in Lee Child's Worth Dying For, Reacher rescued Eleanor Duncan and saved sixteen Thai women from fates much worse than death.Eleanor's tormenters were controlled by a powerful mob boss with a long memory. He wants his property back and will stop at nothing to get it.Now Reacher comes back to save Eleanor Duncan from the mob's terrible vengeance.With innocent lives at stake, Otto and Burke risk their lives to pick up Reacher's trail and race to Las Vegas for an explosive final showdown.Because some things are worth living for.Lee Child Gives Diane Capri Two Thumbs Up!"Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too. Kim Otto is a great, great character - I love her." Lee Child, #1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers including Worth Dying For and The Sentinel.

The next gripping Hunt for Jack Reacher Thriller from Diane Capri "Make some coffee. You'll read all night." Lee Child A wanted man. Wanted...dead. Four men in a van barrel toward Chicago on a crime spree fueled by greed and vengeance. One man driving, another preoccupied with the sophisticated plan. In the back, a new recruit worried and wary, another angry and hot-headed. A day behind them, at a lonely motel in an out of the way New Mexico town, an unthinkable murder brings FBI Special Agent Kim Otto to a dead stop. Soon, Otto realizes the murder is tied to a massive crime wave. Otto and her new partner pursue Reacher's prey to Chicago and reconnect with his old friend. Frances Neagley fills in a few missing pieces and teams up with Otto in a race to stop the killers before a powerful unknown enemy can destroy them all. "Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too. Kim Otto is a great, great character - I love her." Lee Child, #1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers including A Wanted Man and The Sentinel.

Go ahead. Shoot the messenger. See what happens. USA Today Bestselling Series! The next gripping Hunt for Jack Reacher Thriller from Diane Capri! "Make some coffee. You'll read all night." Lee Child Reacher sent a messenger. They stopped him with two bullets. An unidentified man breaches all security and is executed by a skilled assassin on FBI Special Agent Kim Otto's doorstep. In his pockets she finds an advanced encrypted cell phone. Nothing else. Kim arranges to extract the body and removes it to a private morgue for secret autopsy. None of the man's biometrics match the databases. His identity remains concealed. With nothing else to go on, questions multiply. Kim absolutely needs to know. Who was this guy? Why was he trying to reach her? Who killed to stop him? What will they do next? As the bodies pile up, Kim's search leads her to Jack Reacher's former lover in Lee Child's Make Me. Michelle Chang knows Reacher well enough to be reliable, but Chang's explanations are cryptic. When Kim presses harder for intel, Chang bolts. The deadly investigation leads Kim from Detroit to Canada's treacherous Niagara Falls region where expert killers and powerful government agents are not bulletproof-but Jack Reacher is. Lee Child Gives Diane Capri Two Thumbs Up!"Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too. Kim Otto is a great, great character - I love her." -Lee Child, #1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers including The Killing Floor, Never Go Back, and Better Off Dead. The Hunt for Jack Reacher series enthralls fans of John Grisham, Lee Child, David Baldacci, Michael Connelly, Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, and more: "Diane writes like the maestro of the jigsaw puzzle. Sit back in your favorite easy chair, pour a glass of crisp white wine, and enter her devilishly clever world." -David Hagberg, New York Times Bestselling Author of Kirk McGarvey Thrillers "Expertise shines on every page." -Margaret Maron, Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Award Winning MWA Past President and MWA Grand Master Readers Love the Hunt for Jack Reacher Series and Diane Capri: "All Child fans should give it a try!" Award winning New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI Does It Again in another Blockbuster Hunt for Jack Reacher Series Novel

An in-depth sociological investigation of "hope" as it applies to the Italian immigrant experience in the blue-collar suburb of Chicago Heights between 1910 and 1950.

Old Jamestown is an unincorporated CDP (Census Designated Place) in far north St. Louis County, Missouri. Its fascinating history includes a Native American settlement associated with the prehistoric Cahokia Mounds in Illinois, land-grant holders of English and Scottish heritage who arrived in the late 1700s, German immigrant farmers who came during the 1800s, and prominent families who arrived in the mid-1900s. With only two miles separating the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers just north of Old Jamestown, its ferries once provided connections from St. Louis and Florissant to St. Charles County and Illinois. Today, Old Jamestown includes residential subdivisions and nonprofit organizations, but much of it retains its rural ambiance because its karstic topography limits development.

Lombard College was founded in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1851 under the leadership of the Universalist Church. The college's Universalist roots led the institution to be fully coeducational and nonsectarian, which separated it from other colleges of the time. Over time, a bond formed between the small campus neighborhood and community members. Blocks away one could see the towers of Old Main, hear the cheers of a football game at Lombard Field, or see the streetcar bringing students to campus. Galesburg native and poet Carl Sandburg grew up visiting the campus and eventually attended as a student. Sandburg published his first works while at Lombard College. Even with its many successes, Lombard College would fall victim to the Great Depression in 1929. All was not lost though; the memories and people of Lombard College live on through photographs.