61 Hours

Crime thriller

Jack Reacher

14

Paperback

1st

1st

Third Person

Fiction

528

46

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61 Hours is the fourteenth novel in Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series, a tense thriller set during a brutal South Dakota winter. After a bus crashes in a savage snowstorm, former military police major Jack Reacher finds himself stranded near the small town of Bolton. The town is overshadowed by a nearby high‑security prison and terrorized by a ruthless biker gang that uses an abandoned Cold War–era facility as a sophisticated methamphetamine operation. A seventy‑something local librarian has witnessed a key event in the gang’s drug‑running activities and is now the only witness able to testify against them. As a professional hit man closes in to silence her, Reacher teams up with the undermanned local police, constrained by a bizarre rule that forces every officer to respond to trouble alarms at the prison, leaving the town and the witness exposed whenever the siren sounds. Over the course of sixty‑one relentless hours, Reacher navigates small‑town politics, corrupt officials, and a powerful Mexican drug lord, Plato, whose reach extends far beyond Bolton. Layer by layer, Reacher uncovers the truth about what is hidden beneath the snowbound landscape and inside the fortified installation, while the countdown structure of the story drives toward a violent and ambiguous climax that forever alters Reacher’s path.

Delacorte Press

9780593057070

United States

London

2010-03-18

2010

2010

436030133

1

English

New York

Yes

~$6.82

2026-03-01

2018-06-26 17:22:04