Jack Reacher's Rules

"I'm not afraid of death, death's afraid of me."-Jack Reacher You don't have to break the rules if you makethe rules. Case in point: Jack Reacher, the two-fisted, quick-witted, "current poster-boy of American crime fiction" ( Los Angeles Times). The brainchild of #1 New York Timesbestselling author Lee Child, Reacher is a freelance troubleshooter with a mysterious past-and a serious passion for justice. Now all his hard-won knowledge and hard-hitting strategies are within every thriller reader's reach-in a rapid-fire rundown of all the trade secrets, tried-and-true tricks, and time-honored tactics that separate the man in the street from the man to beat: Never count on anything except surprise and unpredictability and danger. Go to bed fully clothed so you are always ready for action. Next to a shotgun, a pool cue is the best weapon in a fight. Look, don't see, listen, don't hear. The more you engage, the longer you survive. Say you'll count to three-then throw your punch at two. After a fistfight, the best cure for a sore hand is to wrap it round a cold beer. Don't do what the law says, do what's right. Never forgive, never forget. From shaking hands to hand-to-hand combat, getting mad to keeping cool, exposing liars to extracting the truth, overturning a car to hitching a ride, here's how fiction's toughest customer keeps his edge-and knocks out fans every time.

Jack Reacher is a former U.S. Army Military Police major. Since leaving the army, the authorities have not been able to locate him, although his name crops up mysteriously from time to time in connection with investigations into murders, terrorism, and other breaches of the law.
 
Lee Child is the author of seventeen Jack Reacher thrillers, including the New York Times bestsellers Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, and The Hard Way, and the #1 bestsellers The Affair, Worth Dying For, 61 Hours, Gone Tomorrow, Bad Luck and Trouble, and Nothing to Lose, as well as the short stories “Second Son” and “Deep Down.” His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery, and The Enemy won both the Barry and Nero awards for Best Novel. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in more than forty territories. All titles have been optioned for major motion pictures, and Jack Reacher, based on the novel One Shot and starring Tom Cruise, will be released in December 2012. A native of England and a former television director, Child lives in New York City, where he is at work on his next thriller, Never Go Back.