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Safe Enough
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A USA Today bestseller
Pulse-pounding short stories from the author Michael Connelly calls "the best thriller writer in the world."
You know Jack Reacher. Now meet twenty more heroes and heavies from the brilliant mind of legendary crime author Lee Child.A drug-dealing hit man feels that he must unburden his fears and guilt to a stranger in “Ten Keys.” A rookie cop in “Normal in Every Way” is assigned to the department’s file room, where he makes connections to historic dates that could lead to solving crimes. A methodical bodyguard quits his job when he’s outsmarted. A military mission is planned to perfection. A potential worker for the Manhattan Project is carefully surveilled by an FBI agent. A killer preys on other killers. Taken together, these stories are a riotous calamity of criminals and crime fighters; individually, they are expertly crafted, piercing tales that hit hard enough to leave a mark.
These twenty intriguing, thrilling, and rapid-fire fictions are intimate portraits of humanity at its best and worst, sure to please new and longtime fans of Child and to illuminate a side of the author’s work unknown to Reacher devotees. Featuring a colorful new introduction from the author, the collection stands as the first book written entirely by Child in four years.
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“<b>I really wanted this to be good... but it turned out so disappointing.</b><br/><br/>I picked up this book because:<br/><br/> - I watched <i>Reacher</i>. <br/> - I felt guilty for never having read a Lee Child book.<br/> - I enjoy short stories.<br/> - Short stories often give insight into an author's writing style and can be a good way to decide whether to read one of their full-length novels.<br/><br/>This book drained me... I don't even know why I bothered finishing it.<br/><br/>Aside from one or two stories, the rest were awful.<br/><br/>Will I pick up another Lee Child book now? <br/><img src="https://media1.tenor.com/m/Qy-Y17u5j7MAAAAC/doubt.gif" width="150" height="150" alt="doubt"/><br/>I'm skeptical—unless it's recommended by a friend whose opinion I trust the most ...”
About Lee Child
Lee Child was born on October 29, 1954, in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV’s “golden age.” During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. But he was fired in 1995 at the age of forty as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars’ worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series.
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