Jack Reacher.
Hero. Loner. Soldier. Son.

New Year’s Day, 1990.The Berlin Wall is coming down. The Cold War is ending.Soon, America won’t have any enemies left.A soldier is found dead in a sleazy motel bed. Jack Reacher is the officer on duty.The soldier turns out to be a two-star general. Then Reacher finds another corpse: The general’s wife.
Lee Child’s latest stomach-churning thriller turns back the clock. We meet a younger Reacher, in dogtags, far from the no-ties, no-last-known-address drifter of the other novels.A Reacher who imposes army discipline.Even if only in his own pragmatic way.

'Complex, classy crime'
- Mirror

'One of the best writers in this genre … And nobody does it better’
- The Sunday Telegraph

‘The thing about Lee Child’s books is that you can’t put the damn things down… there’s something about his writing that’s addictive. The Enemy is no exception…Superb’
- INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

'Lee Child fans will love this prequel to the bestselling Jack Reacher novels. At last Child shares the events that shaped the maverick hero of his last six novels into an ass-kicking, irreverent good guy. If you’re one of the few people who haven’t sampled the sublime thrill of a Child novel, this blast from the past is the best place to start’

- SCOTTISH DAILY RECORD

An unforgettable hero…may be the best Reacher book yet.
- Newsweek