Jack Reacher: Buckets
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Jack Reacher: Buckets
A hot Texas summer can be almost as deadly as Reacher. Almost...
A retired military police major with the look of a rough-and-tumble hobo who crisscrosses America as a self-appointed lawman to fight injustice, he tracks down the lovely Carmen, who resembles an Aztec princess in looks and demeanor, as he travels across the Lone Star State. Under the scorching Texas sun, in a comfortable Cadillac, he hears the moving story of a Mexican woman from a wealthy old family whose heart was stolen by a rich gringo who turned into an insufferable tyrant after the birth of his daughter. An unexpected plea for help prompts Reacher to change his plans - he heads to the remote Greer ranch to protect a fragile beauty and her baby girl from a violent man who has just been released from prison. He doesn't know that yet, that he's tangled in a deadly web of lies, of intrigue and crime, in which, in addition to hot-blooded white Texans, with the local sheriff and judge out of the way, also features a trio of professional killers. Reacher's gonna be sweating it out this time in search of the truth...
In the fifth installment of the popular series of thrilling stories with Jack Reacher, also known from the series of the same name, the pieces in the game are not as black and white as they seem...
Lee Child
A native of Coventry, UK, Jim Grant graduated from Sheffield Law School, but preferred public relations to advocacy. His media career culminated in the post of programme director of Manchester's Granada Television, part of the British ITV network. When he was made redundant in 1995 as part of the company's restructuring, he began freelance writing American thriller-style novels, which he said were "the purest form of entertainment". Already for the book Slaughterhouse (1997, no. 1999), the first installment in a series about retired military policeman Jack Reacher, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel. Since then he has lived in the USA and in 2009 was elected President of the Mystery Writers of America. 27 novels of the Reacher series have been published in Czech by BB/art. The ninth volume of The Shot (Engl. i no. 2005) and the eighteenth volume of Don't Come Back (2014, no. 2015) were adapted into films (2012 and 2016) starring Tom Cruise. Another 16 cases were portrayed in two TV miniseries (2022-2023). At the beginning of 2020, the writer announced that the series would be gradually taken over by his younger brother Andrew (b.1968), who is co-authoring the twenty-fifth story entitled The Protector.
