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The Sentinel: A gripping novel in the Jack Reacher thriller series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling authors Kindle Edition
The edge-of-your-seat, heart-in-mouth new Jack Reacher thriller for 2021 - his 25th adventure. No one's bigger than Jack Reacher.
Jack Reacher hitches a ride to a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He plans to grab a cup of coffee and move right along.
Not going to happen.
The town has been shut down by a cyber attack. At the centre of it all, whether
he likes it or not, is Rusty Rutherford. He's an average IT guy, but he knows more than he thinks.
As the bad guys move in on Rusty, Reacher moves in on them . . .
And now Rusty knows he's protected, he's never going to leave the big man's side.
Reacher might just have to stick around and find out what the hell's gone wrong . . . and then put it right, like only he can.
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'Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of.' Ken Follett
'If you haven't read any Jack Reacher, you have a treat in store . . . a hitchhiker without a phone, a one-man force for good.' - The Times
'A contemporary version of the knight in shining armour . . . Reacher is a mythic figure.' Literary Review
'Jack Reacher is a wonderfully epic hero; tough, taciturn, yet vulnerable... Irresistible.' People
'Jack Reacher has long since earned his prominent place in the pantheon of cool, smart-talking American heroes.' New York Times
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Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Sentinel is the 25th in the series.
And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.29, In Too Deep! ***OUT NOW***
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTransworld Digital
- Publication date27 Oct. 2020
- File size4.6 MB
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Thoroughly entertaining . . . when the world is crumbling, it's good to have some of Reacher's brutal certainties back. ― The Times
The one man revenge machine seems revitalised. Great stuff. ― Sun
The Sentinel shows that two Childs are even better than one. ― James Patterson
It's great to be back in Reacher's company in a world where the bad guys get what's coming to them. A smooth transition for a much-loved character. ― Observer
From the Back Cover
Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He plans to grab a cup of coffee and move right along.
Not going to happen.
The town has been shut down by a cyber attack. At the centre of it all, whether
he likes it or not, is Rusty Rutherford. He's an average IT guy, but he knows more than he thinks.
As the bad guys move in on Rusty, Reacher moves in on them . . .
And now Rusty knows he's protected, he's never going to leave the big man's side.
Reacher might just have to stick around and find out what the hell's gone wrong . . . and then put it right, like only he can.
About the Author
Andrew Child is the author of nine thrillers written under the name Andrew Grant. He is the younger brother of Lee Child. Born in Birmingham, he lives in Wyoming with his wife, the novelist Tasha Alexander.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Rusty Rutherford emerged from his apartment on a Monday morning, exactly one week after he got fired.
He spent the first few days after the ax fell with his blinds drawn, working through his stockpile of frozen pizzas and waiting for the phone to ring. Significant weaknesses, the dismissal letter said. Profound failure of leadership. Basic and fundamental errors. It was unbelievable. Such a distortion of the truth. And so unfair. They were actually trying to pin the town’s recent problems on him. It was . . . a mistake. Plain and simple. Which meant it was certain to be corrected. And soon.
The hours crawled past. His phone stayed silent. And his personal email silted up with nothing more than spam.
He resisted for another full day, then grabbed his old laptop and powered it up. He didn’t own a gun or a knife. He didn’t know how to rappel from a helicopter or parachute from a plane. But still, someone had to pay. Maybe his real-life enemies were going to get away with it. This time. But not the villains in the videogames a developer buddy had sent him. He had shied away from playing them, before. The violence felt too extreme. Too unnecessary. It didn’t feel that way anymore. His days of showing mercy were over. Unless . . .
His phone stayed silent.
Twenty-four hours later he had a slew of new high scores and a mild case of dehydration, but not much else had changed. He closed the computer and slumped back on his couch. He stayed there for the best part of another day, picking at random from a stack of blu rays he didn’t remember buying and silently begging the universe to send him back to work. He would be different, he swore. Easier to get along with. More patient. Diplomatic. Empathetic, even. He would buy donuts for everyone in the office. Twice a month. Three times, if that would seal the deal . . .
His phone stayed silent.
He didn’t often drink, but what else was there left to do? The credits began to roll at the end of another disk. He couldn’t stomach another movie so he retreated to the kitchen. Retrieved an unopened bottle of Jim Beam from the back of a cabinet. Returned to the living room and put a scratchy old Elmore James LP on the turntable.
He wound up asleep, facedown on the floor, after—he wasn’t sure how long. All he knew was that when he woke up his head felt like it was crammed full of rocks, shifting and grinding as if they were trying to burst out of his skull. He thought the pain would never end. But when his hangover did finally pass he found himself experiencing a new emotion. Defiance. He was an innocent man, after all. None of the bad things that had happened were his fault. That was for damn sure. He was the one who’d foreseen them. Who’d warned his boss about them. Time after time. In public and in private. And who’d been ignored. Time after time. So after seven days holed up alone, Rutherford decided it was time to show his face. To tell his side of the story. To anyone who would listen.
He took a shower and dug some clothes out of his closet. Chinos and a polo shirt. Brand new. Somber colors, with logos, to show he meant business. Then he retrieved his shoes from the opposite corners of the hallway where he’d flung them. Scooped up his keys and sunglasses from the bookcase by the door. Stepped out into the corridor. Rode down in the elevator, alone. Crossed the lobby. Pushed through the heavy revolving door and paused on the sidewalk. The mid-morning sun felt like a blast furnace and its sudden heat drew beads of sweat from his forehead and armpits. He felt a flutter of panic. Guilty people sweat. He’d read that somewhere, and the one thing he was desperate to avoid was looking guilty. He glanced around, convinced that everyone would be staring at him, then forced himself to move. He picked up the pace, feeling more conspicuous than if he’d been walking down the street naked. But the truth was that most of the people he passed didn’t even notice he was there. In fact, only two of them paid him any attention at all.
The same time Rusty Rutherford was coming out of his apartment, Jack Reacher was breaking into a bar. He was in Nashville, Tennessee, seventy-five miles north and east of Rutherford’s sleepy little town, and he was searching for the solution to a problem. It was a practical matter, primarily. A question of physics. And biology. Specifically, how to suspend a guy from a ceiling without causing too much permanent damage. To the ceiling, at least. He was less concerned about the guy.
The ceiling belonged to the bar. And the bar belonged to the guy. Reacher had first set foot in the place a little over a day earlier. On Saturday. Almost Sunday, because it was close to midnight by the time he got into town. His journey had not been smooth. The first bus he rode caught on fire and its replacement got wedged under a low bridge after its driver took a wrong turn twenty miles out. Reacher was stiff from the prolonged sitting when he eventually climbed out at the Greyhound station so he moved away to the side, near the smokers’ pen, and took a few minutes to stretch the soreness out of his muscles and joints. He stood there, half-hidden in the shadows, while the rest of the passengers milled around and talked and did things with their phones and reclaimed their luggage and gradually drifted away.
Reacher stayed where he was. He was in no hurry. He’d arrived later than expected, but that was no major problem. He had no appointments to keep. No meetings to attend. No one was waiting for him, getting worried or getting mad. He’d planned to find a place to stay for the night. A diner, for some food. And a bar where he could hear some good music. He should still be able to do all those things. He’d maybe have to switch the order around. Maybe combine a couple of activities. But he’d live. And with some hotels, the kind Reacher preferred, it can work to show up late. Especially if you’re paying cash. Which he always did.
Music first, Reacher decided. He knew there was no shortage of venues in Nashville, but he wanted a particular kind of place. Somewhere worn. With some history. Where Blind Blake could have played, back in the day. Howlin’ Wolf, even. Certainly nowhere new, or gentrified, or gussied up. The only question was how to find a place like that. The lights were still on in the bus depot, and a handful of people were still working or waiting or just keeping themselves off the street. Some of them were bound to be local. Maybe all of them were. Reacher could have asked for directions. But he didn’t go in. He preferred to navigate by instinct. He knew cities. He could read their shape and flow like a sailor can sense the direction of the coming waves. His gut told him to go north, so he set off across a broad triangular intersection and on to a vacant lot, strewn with rubble. The heavy odor of diesel and cigarettes faded behind him, and his shadow grew longer in front as he walked. It led the way to rows of narrow, parallel streets lined with similar brick buildings, stained with soot. It felt industrial, but decayed and hollow. Reacher didn’t know what kinds of businesses had thrived in Nashville’s past, but whatever had been made or sold or stored it had clearly happened around there. And it clearly wasn’t happening anymore. The structures were all that remained. And not for much longer, Reacher thought. Either money would flow in and shore them up, or they’d collapse.
Reacher stepped off the crumbling sidewalk and continued down the center of the street. He figured he’d give it another two blocks. Three at the most. If he hadn’t found anything good by then he’d strike out to the right, toward the river. He passed a place that sold part-worn tires. A warehouse that a charity was using to store donated furniture. Then, as he crossed the next street, he picked up the rumble of a bass guitar and the thunder of drums.
The sound was coming from a building in the center of the block. It didn’t look promising. There were no windows. No signage. Just a thin strip of yellow light escaping from beneath a single wooden door. Reacher didn’t like places with too few potential exits so he was inclined to keep walking. But as he drew level, the door opened. Two guys, maybe in their late twenties with sleeveless T-shirts and a smattering of anemic tattoos, stumbled out onto the sidewalk. Reacher moved to avoid them, and at the same moment a guitar began to wail from inside. Reacher paused. The riff was good. It built and swelled and soared, and just as it seemed to be done and its final note was dying away, a woman’s voice took over. It was mournful, desperate, agonizing, like a conduit to a world of the deepest imaginable sorrow. Reacher couldn’t resist. He stepped across the threshold.
Product details
- ASIN : B084272YSN
- Publisher : Transworld Digital (27 Oct. 2020)
- Language : English
- File size : 4.6 MB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 381 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1787633616
- Best Sellers Rank: 3,790 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 15 in Technothrillers (Kindle Store)
- 22 in Techno Thrillers
- 29 in Urban Fiction (Kindle Store)
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About the authors
Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies. Two blockbusting Jack Reacher movies have been made so far. He is the recipient of many awards, most recently Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours.
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Customers find the book to be a thrilling read, with one describing it as a fine episode in the Jack Reacher series. However, the storyline receives mixed reactions, with some customers finding it gripping while others note that the plot makes little sense.
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Customers find the book highly readable, describing it as a page-turner that never fails to thrill the reader.
"...That could be due to the recent disappointments but all in all, it was quite good...." Read more
"Never fails to keep me glued until the end! Awesome read as always! looking forward to start the next book!" Read more
"...Overall it's very engaging. Sure, there some oddities to Reacher - he speaks more. He explains more...." Read more
"...(That prize goes to Past Tense - by a long way.) But, overall, it's very good, I much enjoyed it and I expect them to get better, a little more..." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the storyline of the book, with some finding it great and gripping, while others note that the plot makes little sense and isn't as addictive as in previous books.
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"...The ending was a bit disappointing but I am curious now as to how Andrew's second foray into the Reacher world goes." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 April 2025Another action packed book by this author
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2021I wasn't sure what to expect from this, giving that I found the last few ones in the series a bit disappointing and now the reins have been handed over to Andrew.
I actually was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. That could be due to the recent disappointments but all in all, it was quite good. The usual scenario plays out where Reacher finds himself in a small town and gets involved in stopping an attack of an unsuspecting guy. This then leads to him being embroiled in figuring out why this guy is such a target. Cue the usual fist fights and lots of action.
The dialogue is a bit different. Reacher is more chattier than we are used to but I didn't mind that. My issue was just that it took too long to get to the crux of the issue and figuring out who was who. The ending was a bit disappointing but I am curious now as to how Andrew's second foray into the Reacher world goes.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 April 2025Never fails to keep me glued until the end!
Awesome read as always! looking forward to start the next book!
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 October 2020To be fair this is much better than some of these reviews would have you believe.
The plot is more interesting and involving than several of the previous entries in the series - it certainly has more twists and surprises. Some of the elements to it could have felt more developed (e.g. the town is under a ransomware attack - eh?), and overall the narrative could be a bit more focussed, but never mind. Overall it's very engaging.
Sure, there some oddities to Reacher - he speaks more. He explains more. I'm not sure that's a good thing really - the whole point is that he's a man of very few words who says them only when he needs to. He doesn't tend to say them to be clever, apart from very occasionally. And the sentences overall aren't quite as "clipped" as we're used to - but if you look back to the earlier Reacher novels, neither were they always. And is stuff like that worth panning the book for? Absolutely not.
Overall, this is a really strong Reacher entry. Let's face it - these books are written to a formula anyway, and it can't be THAT difficult to replicate if it's effectively your sole job to do so, given enough time and effort and with sufficient input from the originator himself. With the right continued handling there's much life in this series yet. I'd like to see Lee & Andrew write a few of these together before Lee steps away entirely, but as long as that happens I'm not especially worried. Still very enjoyable, and more interesting than previous entries.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 November 2020Like many reviewers of this book I am a regular Lee Child/Jack Reacher reader. I have read every book in this series at least twice and am part way through my third read of all of them having started once more at Killing Floor.
Lee Child's Jack Reacher books are the only Kindle books that I now pre-order and pay full price for. I tend to wait for other authors books (e.g. Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, and John Grisham) to reduce down from £9.99 before I buy them. I also look out for top-rated new authors and give them a try when they are a reasonable price.
The story in this book has already been covered in other reviews, so I won't go into the same detail here, but it does start off very well. Rusty Rutherford is the sacked IT manager in a sleepy no name town suffering a cyber attack, and Jack gets a lift there with an insurance guy sent to assess the value of that attack. Jack soon spots some people who look out of place and easily foils a kidnap attempt. Then he decides to stick around for a couple of days. It's a good, promising start and you can start to believe that all is well now that Andrew Child has taken the reins.
Sadly, after the great start, the story almost seems to drift for a while, then becomes static. It lost momentum for me and I could only read a couple of pages before falling asleep in bed at night. I admit I wasn't 100% sure what The Sentinel is apart from the fact that it might be to do with cyber security and either Russians or Nazis, or maybe it is just a name for Reacher, it's not really clear, but that might be because I'm not an IT expert, so I soldiered on.
Reacher behaves differently and becomes much more eloquent in his speech. Then when confronted he tends to try a fairly lengthy discussion first rather than to always concentrate then react like he used to react when threatened. He has become a man who uses a cellphone and knows about servers and copying computer files. That's fair enough. I don't object to that, but he is different and that much is obvious.
For me the storyline became too cluttered and unrealistic, and I even don't particularly mind unrealistic, as many books are like that. However, I don't pay full price for cluttered and unrealistic storylines and expected better from a Reacher book. I didn't even care about the other characters because they weren't fleshed out enough in the story.
Then there is absolutely no twist in the tale. The identity of the "baddie" and his informer are completely and blindingly obvious. You know this because there is no-one else who they could be in the whole book. Therefore the ending holds no surprises at all. Also, despite the premise that Rusty and his friend are only interested in how much money his software will make him, that part is completely abandoned and we never find out any more about it apart from the fact that Rusty is more welcome in the town at the end.
This might sound like a review that should be worth fewer than 3 stars, but I don't want to be over critical and say the book was really bad because it wasn't. It had good parts. It had possibilities that weren't fully realised. I finished it, but felt disappointed. Would I go back again and pay £9.99 for it knowing what I know now? No I wouldn't. Will I pre-order the next book in the series at full price? No I won't. Will I read it again like I've read all of the others? No I won't. That's my honest opinion.
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Amazon KundeReviewed in Germany on 6 March 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Gut
Ich lese Reacher-Romane auf Deutsch und auf Englisch. Ja, es gibt schon mal Längen, aber alles ist relativ. Mir gefällts
- PlaceholderReviewed in India on 31 December 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars The new Reacher is as good as the old one
With Andrew. Child in the picture changes were expected in the book's narrative and it is evident. But the writing is crisp, the story as relentless as ever and the action, thrills and storyline excellent I quite like this version of Jack Reacher 2.0
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Francesco BoggioReviewed in Italy on 12 April 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Libro recentissimo non ancora disponibile in Italia.
Ha impiegato 3 mesi per arrivare ma è una pubblicazione recentissima, non ancora disponibile in Italia e naturalmente non ancora tradotta. ricevuto in eccellente stato.
- Wayne GodwinReviewed in Australia on 27 November 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Another Reacher Ripper
As with all Jack Reacher books The Sentinel did not disappoint. The plot moves at a good pace and you can easily develop a good understanding of the content. Like most Lee Child/Jack Reacher fans I'm looking forward to the next Reacher book. One thing though, no romance for Reacher in The Sentinel. Jack usually gets the girl (at least one). Another movie coming from a Jack Reacher book. Preferably with an actor befitting Jack's build and physical stature. The Sentinel is worth a second read as are all Jack Reacher books.
- JimchuReviewed in the United States on 20 April 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars good plot and characters
You’ll see a new side of Reacher in this one. Typical storyline, but that always work; right? Good character development.