Dirty money

"It's been years since I've read a thriller as good as Blood Money." New Statesman "A beautifully crafted debut novel... The action moves at breakneck speed, scattering blood, gunshots, and severed limbs along the way." Sunday Telegraph Lee Child's Blood Money is the novel that introduces the tough Jack Reacher—the son of a soldier, a former military police officer—the protagonist of a series of books, praised by the likes of Stephen King, a worldwide success, and whose film rights are being fought over by major Hollywood studios. It's a gripping thriller, in which Reacher, wrongly imprisoned, shows that justice chose to play with the wrong person. "The opening of this riveting thriller is classic," wrote the Manchester Evening News. "Outsider Jack Reacher arrives in Margrave, and within five minutes the town cops are trying to frame him for murder, without even giving him time to finish his breakfast." From there, Lee Child, with great skill and boldness, takes to the extreme a type created by great names in crime fiction, such as Dashiell Hammett and his protagonist: the cold-blooded, hard-nosed vigilante. In this, his first adventure, Reacher will see a model town in Georgia reveal all its rottenness, while simultaneously beginning a brutal and surprising body count... and thousands of counterfeit dollar bills. Dirty Money, besides being the first in a successful series (to be published by Bertrand Brasil), earned Lee Child the 1998 Barry Award for best debut novel, awarded by Deadly Pleasures magazine, a crime fiction magazine.