Killing Floor

Lee Child

Penguin, 1997 - Fiction - 419 pages

The sleepy, forgotten town of Margrave, Georgia, hasn't seen a crime in decades, but within the span of three days it witnesses events that leave everyone stunned. An unidentified man is found beaten and shot to death on a lonely country road. The police chief and his wife are butchered on a quiet Sunday morning. Then a bank executive disappears from his home, leaving his keys on the table and his wife frozen with fear. The easiest suspect is Jack Reacher - an outsider, a man just passing through. But Reacher is a tough ex-military policeman, trained to think fast and act faster. When authorities learn the first victim was someone from Reacher's past, and he cannot convince them of his innocence, his patient self-defense becomes a raging crusade of revenge. With two cops who believe in him - a thoughtful black detective and a woman named Roscoe - he closes in on a ruthless conspiracy hiding behind Margrave's rural charm. But closing in on him is a team of killers. Step by step, the two teams circle - waiting to see which will be the first to walk onto the killing floor.

Contents

• I: 1
• II: 6
• III: 25
• IV: 36
• V: 48
• VI: 59
• VII: 72
• VIII: 84
• IX: 95
• X: 111
• XI: 129
• XII: 137
• XIII: 144
• XIV: 152
• XV: 166
• XVI: 178
• XVII: 197
• XVIII: 210
• XIX: 228
• XX: 238
• XXI: 248
• XXII: 261
• XXIII: 273
• XXIV: 287
• XXV: 296
• XXVI: 313
• XXVII: 324
• XXVIII: 340
• XXIX: 345
• XXX: 353
• XXXI: 361
• XXXII: 377
• XXXIII: 386
• XXXIV: 400

About the author

Lee Child is the pen name of Jim Grant, who was born in Coventry, England on October 29, 1954. He attended law school at Sheffield University, worked in the theater, and finally worked as a presentation director for Granada Television. After being laid off in 1995 because of corporate restructuring, he decided to write a book. The Killing Floor won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel and became the first book in the Jack Reacher series. In 2012, the first Jack Reacher film was released starring Tom Cruise. His book's, Worth Dying For and Past Tense, made the bestseller list in 2018.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Killing Floor; A Jove Book; Book 1 of Jack Reacher novel; Volume 1 of Jack Reacher
• Author: Lee Child
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Penguin, 1997
• ISBN: 0515141429, 9780515141429
• Length: 419 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Fiction / Thrillers / General; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense