Good & Valuable Consideration
In this short story from the thrilling anthology FaceOff, bestselling authors Lee Child and Joseph Finder—along with their popular series characters Jack Reacher and Nick Heller—team up for the first time ever.
When Jack Reacher sits down to watch a baseball game at a Boston bar, he has no way of knowing what kind of trouble is about to walk in the door—and not just because he’s a Yankees fan in a Red Sox town. In this action-packed short story, Reacher and a new acquaintance—Sox fan Nick Heller—find themselves drawn into a much less friendly rivalry when the guy sitting between them at the bar turns out to be a marked man. For more exciting pairs, check out all eleven short stories in FaceOff!
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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.
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.
Jack Reacher consists of thirty primary books, and includes twelve additional books that complement the series but are not considered mandatory reads 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.
