Atonement

"I love writing Reacher but these stand-alone stories were a real delight for me . . . It was liberating. And fun."—Lee Child Twenty crime stories by the creator of Jack Reacher, never before collected For the past twenty years, Lee Child has been one of the bestselling authors in the world, thanks to the popularity of his iconic and instantly recognizable hero Jack Reacher. But even at the height of Reacher's fame, Child's short story writing was not confined to the series; throughout the course of his career, he published tales about a range of characters on both sides of the law, including assassins, a body guard, CIA and FBI agents, gangsters, and more. Meticulously plotted and packed with Child's trademark action and suspense, the stories show the author's mastery of the short form, and they've never been collected before now. In "Ten Keys," a drug-dealing hit man feels that he must unburden his fears and... Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child Lee Child In the early 1990s I was fifteen years into a career in TV production, but the winds of change were blowing, and I sensed the gravy train couldn't run forever.