Killing Floor
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  • Published: 2 May 1998
  • ISBN: 9780553505405
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $19.99

Killing Floor

(Jack Reacher 1)

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31 May 2022
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18 Jan 2022
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1 Apr 2014
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2 May 1998
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1 May 2010
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9 Nov 2017
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The very first book by number one bestseller Lee Child, which introduces his iconic hero Jack Reacher.

Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular series about Jack Reacher, hero of the blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise. It presents Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs, the perfect action hero.


Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret.

Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years.The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure.

They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.
  • Published: 2 May 1998
  • ISBN: 9780553505405
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Lee Child

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. Lee 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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Praise for Killing Floor

'Great style and careful plotting... Depicted with the kind of detail that builds dread and suspense.' New York Times

'Beautifully detailed action scenes and fascinating arcana about currency and counterfeiting enliven this taut and tough-minded first novel... Child writes with a hand as strong and steady as steel.' Publishers' Weekly

At least as good as any of Grisham's.

Cork Examiner

Stunningly dynamic

Daily Mail

The best thriller I've read in years

New Statesman

All [Jack Reacher novels] are ripping yarns, but since this is the first, it seems the logical place to start...Killing Floor wins awards for Best Corrupt Southern Town in a Summer Novel and Best Exploding Warehouse

Stephen King (in Entertainment Weekly)

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