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Night School

Jack Reacher #21 / 31
by Lee Child, Andrew Child
Night School (Jack Reacher #21) by Lee Child, Andrew Child
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It’s 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he’s off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind.

Two other men are in the classroom—an FBI agent and a CIA analyst. Each is a first-rate operator, each is fresh off a big win, and each is wondering what the hell they are doing there.

Then they find out: A Jihadist sleeper cell in Hamburg, Germany, has received an unexpected visitor—a Saudi courier, seeking safe haven while waiting to rendezvous with persons unknown. A CIA asset, undercover inside the cell, has overheard the courier whisper a chilling message:

For what? And who from? Reacher and his two new friends are told to find the American. Reacher recruits the best soldier he has ever worked with: Sergeant Frances Neagley. Their mission heats up in more ways than one, while always keeping their eyes on the prize: If they don’t get their man, the world will suffer an epic act of terrorism.

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Category: Thriller
Release date: November 7, 2016

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Lee Child

Lee Child

Before he became the architect of modern vigilante fiction, Lee Child was a man on the brink of reinvention. In 1995, after being laid off from his job at Granada Television, he didn’t chase another corporate title. Instead, he sat down and started writing—armed with a blank page, a sharp sense of justice, and the idea of a lone drifter who didn’t belong anywhere but could set things right wherever he landed. That first story became Killing Floor. The character was Jack Reacher. And the rest is a revolution in the thriller genre.

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Born James Dover Grant in Coventry and raised in Birmingham, Child absorbed the grit of post-war Britain and translated it into a distinct storytelling style: cool, clipped, and utterly precise. There’s a ruthless economy in his writing—no wasted motion, no unnecessary flourishes. His prose moves like the characters it portrays: fast, focused, and always one step ahead.

His novels aren’t about explosions or endless shootouts—though there’s action, plenty of it. What sets them apart is a kind of disciplined tension, where justice hangs by a thread and violence, when it comes, is swift and purposeful. He’s not just writing thrillers; he’s writing about power, isolation, and the cost of doing the right thing when no one else will.

With over 100 million copies sold and translations in more than 40 languages, his work has carved a lasting mark on crime fiction. Readers don’t just return for the action—they come back for the quiet intelligence behind it, for stories that ask what happens when a man with no home and no baggage decides to hold the line, again and again.

Now collaborating with his younger brother Andrew, Child continues to shape the legacy of a character—and a style—that refuses to fade into the background. For fans of taut, morally charged suspense, his novels are less a diversion and more a statement: justice doesn’t wait for permission. It walks into town uninvited.

Jack Reacher

He’s just passing through—no destination, no baggage, no need for a second chance. But when trouble brews, he doesn’t look away. He steps in. Quietly. Decisively. And once he does, nothing is ever the same again.

This is the brutal elegance of the Jack Reacher series: a world sketched in sharp edges and hard choices, where justice isn't handed down from above—it’s taken, one broken rule at a time. Each story drops you into a new setting—a forgotten town, a backroad diner, a tense urban sprawl—and strips everything down to essentials: a wrong that needs righting, and a man built to do it. The pacing is relentless, the prose spare, and the tension wired tight from the first page.

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But what sets this series apart isn’t just the action—it’s the stillness between the punches. Reacher is more than muscle; he’s a loner with an internal compass that never wavers, even when the world does. There’s no agenda, no backstory dragging him down—just a raw sense of what's fair, what's right, and what happens when no one else steps up.

With its unmistakable voice, cinematic scope, and a protagonist who’s become an icon of modern thriller fiction, this series doesn’t follow the rules—it rewrites them. That’s why it’s not just read, it’s devoured—by millions, across decades, and now across screens.

If you’re drawn to taut crime fiction with moral bite, high-stakes confrontations, and a hero who never stays but always leaves a mark, this is where you dig in.


Jack Reacher consists of twenty-nine books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of two more books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1)
  ★ 9.00 / 1
Die Trying (Jack Reacher #2)
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Tripwire (Jack Reacher #3)
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The Visitor (Jack Reacher #4)
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Echo Burning (Jack Reacher #5)
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Without Fail (Jack Reacher #6)
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Persuader (Jack Reacher #7)
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The Enemy (Jack Reacher #8)
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One Shot (Jack Reacher #9)
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The Hard Way (Jack Reacher #10)
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Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher #11)
  ★ 9.00 / 1
Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher #12)
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Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher #13)
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61 Hours (Jack Reacher #14)
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Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher #15)
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The Affair (Jack Reacher #16)
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A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher #17)
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Never Go Back (Jack Reacher #18)
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Personal (Jack Reacher #19)
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Make Me (Jack Reacher #20)
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Night School (Jack Reacher #21)
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The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher #22)
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Past Tense (Jack Reacher #23)
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Blue Moon (Jack Reacher #24)
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The Sentinel (Jack Reacher #25)
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Better Off Dead (Jack Reacher #26)
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No Plan B (Jack Reacher #27)
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The Secret (Jack Reacher #28)
  ★ 9.00 / 1
In Too Deep (Jack Reacher #29)
  ★ 8.00 / 1
Exit Strategy (Jack Reacher #30)
  ⧗ 8.00 / 1
Jack Reacher Book 31 (Jack Reacher #31)
  ⧗ 8.00 / 1


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