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    The Enemy

    Written by Lee Child

    Narrated by Dick Hill

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    Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier's son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army's brightest stars. But in every cop's life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case…

    New Year's Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina "hot-sheets" motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. But this situation can't be controlled. Within hours the general's wife is murdered hundreds of miles away. Then the dominoes really start to fall…

    Two Special Forces soldiers—the toughest of the tough—are taken down, one at a time. Top military commanders are moved from place to place in a bizarre game of chess. And somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Jack Reacher—an ordinarily untouchable investigator for the 110th Special Unit—is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have.

    But Reacher won't quit. He's fighting a new kind of war. And he's taking a young female lieutenant with him on a deadly hunt that leads them from the ragged edges of a rural army post to the winding streets of Paris to a confrontation with an enemy he didn't know he had. With his French-born mother dying—and divulging to her son one last, stunning secret—Reacher is forced to question everything he once believed…about his family, his career, his loyalties—and himself. Because this soldier's son is on his way into the darkness, where he finds a tangled drama of desperate desires and violent death—and a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.

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    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781543612950
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    The Enemy
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    Lee Child

    Lee Child, previously a television director, union organizer, theater technician, and law student, was fired and on the dole when he hatched a harebrained scheme to write a bestselling novel, thus saving his family from ruin. Killing Floor went on to win worldwide acclaim. The Midnight Line, is his twenty-second Reacher novel. The hero of his series, Jack Reacher, besides being fictional, is a kindhearted soul who allows Lee lots of spare time for reading, listening to music, and watching Yankees and Aston Villa games. Lee was born in England but now lives in New York City and leaves the island of Manhattan only when required to by forces beyond his control. Visit Lee online at LeeChild.com for more information about the novels, short stories, and the movies Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, starring Tom Cruise. Lee can also be found on Facebook: LeeChildOfficial, Twitter: @LeeChildReacher, and YouTube: LeeChildJackReacher.

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    • 4/5
      Synopsis: Major Gen. Kenneth Kramer dies of a heart attack in a seedy North Carolina motel, apparently while in the company of a prostitute. MP Maj. Jack Reacher investigates and comes to the conclusion that the woman Kramer was with stole his briefcase. Reacher's superior, Col. Leon Garber, orders him to deliver news of the general's death to his wife. Accompanied by a female officer, Lieutenant Summer, Reacher travels to her house in Virginia. When they arrive, however, they find evidence of a break-in, as well as Mrs. Kramer's body. Reacher returns to the bar across the street from the motel in an attempt to identify the alleged prostitute. He gets into a fight with a bouncer, breaking his knee. Afterwards, Reacher is told by the motel's night clerk that he heard a military vehicle leaving after Kramer's death, and Reacher concludes that the woman Kramer was with is a female army officer. He is later confronted by two officers, Col. Coomer and Brigadier Gen. Vassell, members of Kramer's staff, who inquire about the briefcase but leave after Reacher mentions Ms. Kramer's death. Later, a Delta Force soldier, Christopher Carbone, is found murdered in a manner that suggests he was gay. Garber is suddenly transferred to a new command in South Korea and replaced with Col. Willard, a deeply unpleasant bureaucrat who instructs Reacher to write off Carbone's death as an accident. He also reveals that Carbone filed a complaint against Reacher accusing him of assaulting the bouncer, and that he intends to use it as evidence that Reacher killed Carbone unless he closes the investigation quickly. Shortly thereafter, another murder is reported: David Brubaker, Carbone's CO, is shot dead in a Columbia alleyway with money and heroin in his pocket. Believing that the two murders are connected, Reacher and Summer focus on the one thing missing from Kramer's newly recovered briefcase: the printed agenda from a conference he was supposed to attend for members of the armored divisions. Coomer and Vassell deny that such an agenda exists, and Willard begins to turn up the pressure on Reacher, forcing him to rely on his wits, contacts in the military police, and years of experience as he tries to unravel the true reason why Kramer's briefcase was stolen. In the midst of it all, he receives a call from his older brother Joe informing him that his elderly mother Josephine has passed away from cancer in Paris. Despite having been assured by Josephine earlier that she was ready to die, Reacher feels her loss immensely. After returning to the United States with Summer following his mother's funeral, Reacher secures a meeting with the Chief of Staff, and reveals his findings: with the collapse of the Soviet Union imminent, the army is preparing to downsize its armored units in favor of infantry, and Kramer and his fellow officers, not wanting to lose their prestigious jobs and perks, were preparing to orchestrate an elaborate public relations and lobbying scheme to persuade Congress and the American people to reject the plan. Having foreseen this, the Chief admits that he arranged for twenty of the army's best investigators, including Reacher, to be assigned to specific posts across the world on a specific day, using forged orders from Garber, so that they would be in a position to prevent such manipulations. He provides Reacher with evidence of his claims, and notes that the Secretary of Defense was also working with the plotters. Reacher deduces that Kramer was gay, and that he met Carbone at the motel, who stole his briefcase when he passed away and informed Brubaker of the contents. He also set up Reacher to be charged with assault to cover his tracks. Coomer and Vassell, eager to recover the briefcase, set up an exchange between Carbone and their gofer Maj. Marshall; Marshall killed Carbone and then murdered Brubaker as well before he could use the information. He also killed Ms. Kramer while searching her house for the case; Reacher realizes that Marshall also had a relationship with Kramer and killed his wife out of anger and jealousy. Reacher travels to California and arrests Vassell and Coomer for conspiracy to commit homicide. He then travels to a firing range in the Mojave Desert where Marshall is conducting firing exercises to arrest him as well. Marshall attempts to commit suicide by maneuvering the tanks into firing on his position, but Reacher shoots him in the shoulder and takes him into custody. The missing agenda is subsequently retrieved from Carbone's billet: it contains a plan to assassinate eighteen prominent infantry officers, including many rising stars, to cripple their modernization efforts. The evidence is turned over to military authorities, and the accused are sentenced to life imprisonment for their crimes. Reacher is informed that, due to the charge filed by Carbone, he will be demoted to captain unless he denies it, which his lawyer encourages him to do. Instead, Reacher accepts the charge to avoid disgracing Carbone's memory further, and looks forward to serving on the front lines again. Before accepting his new command, he tracks down the corrupt Willard and executes him in his own house, planting drugs on the body to hide his involvement. The story ends with Reacher reflecting on the fact that he never saw Summer again despite hearing that she also received a promotion to captain.Review: While the entire story is rather riveting, the ending falls flat. It's like Child gets to his word minimum and simply puts, The End.
    • 5/5
      Jack Teacher is an NO Investigator caught up in a puzzle involving two seemingly unconnected deaths, that of a general of natural causes in a sleazy hotel and the murder of his wife within hours alone at her home. And the general's briefcase is missing. Typically fast-moving plot with some twists and Jack having to work on the run or have his legs cut out from under him. Great read.
    • 3/5
      A Reacher novel where he is an MP in the army.
    • 4/5
      Nice romp into Reacher's past when he was still an MP. Imagine an Army an Army full of conspiracy and moral ambiguity right after the Berlin wall fell. This might be the only Lee Child that could be classifies as a police procedural. Recommended for all trying to make sense of the Reacher canon.
    • 5/5
      fantastic hero
    • 4/5
      While this is not my favorite Reacher novel, I can still say that Child is improving as a writer with every outing (this being the eighth). In this installment, we turn back the clock to 1989, when the Berlin Wall had just fallen and Reacher was a military policemen. We see more of his brother Joe and we meet his Parisian mother. There's probably more biographical information on our hero here than in any of the other novels. His year of birth is established as 1960, which makes him no spring chicken in 2011.

      If Reacher were Batman, this novel would be an issue of Detective Comics, showcasing him as a sleuth more than as a man of action. The fatal heart attack of a general leads to three murders, and Reacher must solve them all.

      I used to get peeved when Child (an Englishman) would throw the occasional Brit-ism into Reacher's American milieu. They appear here, too, but now I see them as sort of a game rather than an annoyance. For example, what American uses the slang term "shirtlifter" for a homosexual? No one, that's who.

      I'd welcome further forays into Reacher's past. F. Paul Wilson has been doing it too with his action hero Repairman Jack. I'd like to see how Reacher regained the rank of major that he lost in this novel. Keep 'em coming, Mr. Child!
    • 4/5
      An unexpected reassignment, a dead general on New Year's Eve, and a missing briefcase: Reacher figured the army would cover it up, but when the general's wife dies in a home invasion the same night, he pokes his nose in. Reacher has a mystery to solve, a pretty, competent aide, no aversion to using violence to solve a problem, and a thorough knowledge of the grey areas between the rules. My kind of guy.
    • 4/5
      I have read all of the books in the Jack Reacher series up to this one and have enjoyed them all, some more than others. This is one that I really liked. It goes back to when Jack was an MP in the Army investigating several murders both in the civilian and armed services sector. Mr. Child has developed quite a convoluted plot that keeps the reader guessing right up until the end. There also is a storyline involving Jack's brother and mother that helps fill-in some further information regarding Jack's family life.
    • 3/5
      Said to be a prequel to the Reacher series, the pace was a bit slow but still a good "detective" mystery. Reacher here as a military MP is too embroiled in military minutia and the story flags through much of the middle.
    • 4/5
      I was passed this book by a friend of my Mum's. Mum doesn't really like mystery, violence or suspense, but her friend and I had discovered we both thoroughly enjoyed Larssons "Girl With..." trilogy, and she thought I might enjoy this one.It's the first Lee Child, and therefore the first Jack Reacher book I've ever read. I've always thought of them as the male equivalent of the Chick Lit Airport book (a genre in itself), and so I mainly got what I was expecting. A nice, easy read.The plot was tightly paced and full of detail. I noticed that some reviewers found the military detail overwhelming, but as someone that hasn't read any of the other books in the series, I found the detail helpful. The constant acronyms were slightly off-putting, but I can forgive that.Some elements of the plot were predictable, but the reasoning of the characters was kept shrouded. I worked out who must have been the main perpetrator, but how and why they were was something I couldn't quite work out in advance of the conclusion.All in all, I enjoyed the book. It's not the sort of thing I'd normally pick off the shelf, but if I saw one in a charity shop I'd certainly buy it. Maybe I need to go on holiday and find an airport bookshop...
    • 2/5
      Definitely not as good of a read as The Persuader. Sometimes Child goes into far too much detail about the various weapons used in the military than I am able to tolerate. Maybe I'm too "girly," but I could care less about which gun is which, how many bullets it takes, who made it and why! There were times I scanned ahead on the page to get to the action or dialogue rather than read yet another weapons description. Was nice to read about Reacher's background, though I am reading the books out of order, which probably doesn't help.
    • 4/5
      Okay, it's not great literature, but for what it is, this is as good as it gets. This Reacher novel goes back in time so we start learning more about his life in the military, before he was a rootless hero. It took me a while to get into it, but about halfway through I could say the usual: I dare you to tell me you can put a Jack Reacher novel down.
    • 5/5
      This was my first introduction to Lee Child, and what an introduction it was! There's just something about Child's writing that sucks you in and stays with you throughout the book. Reacher is a very unique protagonist who you can't help but like. He's not conventional, but he'll do the dirty work when needed. the mystery of the murder was well paced and kept you wondering throughout the book. This is the book that has now let me caught up in entire Jack Reacher series, and it's a series I'd recommend to anyone.
    • 5/5
      With the Berlin Wall coming down in 1990, The Cold War was ending. The military was due for a downsizine and certain commanders didn't want to see thier units lessened.Maj. Jack Reacher is suddenly transferred to a new base and is the duty officer for the Military Police on New Year's Eve. He gets a call that a two-star general has been found in a seedy motel, dead of a heart attack. When he goes to the general's home to notify his wife, Reacher finds the genreral's wife has been murdered.Reacher finds that the general was headed for a meeting and his briefcase, containing the meeting's agenda, is missing. When he continues to investigate, he is ordered to refrain because it could bring bad publicity to the military.Reacher and a young officer who is assisting him, Lt. Summer, feel that it would be unethical to stop the investigation so at the risk of their careers they continue their search.There is conflict with a Delta Force unit when one of their men reports that Reacher beat up two civilians without provocation. Later, when the Delta Force sergeant is murdered, the men in his unit give Reacher seven days to find the killer or they will come after him.This is a page turner in the highest sense of the term. Reacher is one of the best characters in literature and his bravery and dedication are shown here as never before. Many readers wanted to know why Reacher left the military and this story looks back on the events that led to his resignation from active duty.The story itself has excellent action scenes and Reacher's motives and investigatory actions are properly explained and logical.
    • 5/5
      This is an unusual Reacher book. All the books to this point, Reacher was out of the Army, but this could be considered a prequal, because Reacher is still in the army.It's New Year's Day, and a General is found in a motel room, dead. Not only is he dead, but his brief case is missing, and they army wants it back. The problem is that the General wasn't alone. Reacher gets the call and he has to sort out what happened. In the process, Reacher has a new Colonel, and he's telling Reacher not to investigate what has happened. Also in the process, a DELTA solider is killed, and they think that Reacher did it. It's up to Reacher to find the truth, no matter where it leads.While all of this is going on, Reacher gets a call from his brother, and his mom isn't doing well. That's all I really want to say on the plots. There's a lot more going on, but you get the jist of it. I don't want to give away any spoilers.This is such a great read! It has a lot of plot twists, and fantastic characters that will keep you glued to the end, and still wanting more. If you've read the past Reacher books, then you know what to expect and you won't be let down. If you haven't started and of the Reacher books, then this is a good one to start with. Do your self a favor and pick it up!I can promise you won't be sorry, I know I wasn't.
    • 4/5
      A bit more "detecting" in this Reacher episode than in the previous ones in the series, and a bit less butt kicking. The story is decent, the mystery decent, the glimpse of Reacher's life before he left the military very enlightening. It was a well-done back story which fleshes Reacher out a bit more than his straight up butt kicking stories. Overall a decent read.
    • 5/5
      The Enemy opens with a heart attack. A two-star general is found dead of an apparent heart attack. Within hours his wife is murdered. Within days two special forces soldiers are murdered, one at a time. At the center of each death is Jack Reacher, a complicated military cop. Ordinarily considered one of the best, suddenly Reacher is starting to look like a suspect instead. Normally a loner, Reacher finds himself working with a partner trying to clear his name. It is obvious he is being set up and Reacher will stop at nothing to get to the truth including going AWOL and much worse. The Enemy is peppered with military jargon and violence but not overwhelmingly so. Reacher has a likable character. He is human enough to do the wrong thing from time to time. How he gets out of the trickier situations really makes the story. I was fascinated from start to finish.
    • 4/5
      The usual fare.This time we are taken back to Jack's early life while still serving in the US army as an MP major. Sunddenly transfered to a new base, he has to cope with the unexpected death of a 2-star general, the repercussions this invokes.Limited violence compared to some, Jack has to be in full investigative form which is quite enjoyable. How accurate the descriptions of the US army bases and lifestyles are, only the author knows, but they don't detract from the plot without being too explicit either. The plot is somplex and the motives of the opposition byzantine - not wholly belivable, but it is fast paced and you can skip over the worst of the unlikely flaws. We get some development of Jacks character and background through the interaction with his family. This does bog down the plot a bit as it is a complete sidetrack, but for those who have followed Jack's progress through several books it is a welcome explanation.Fun and fast muc like the others.
    • 2/5
      The enemy was a pretty standard military mystery. Stale plot.
    • 3/5
      If you have not read Lee Child before, do NOT start with this book - like I did. I picked up this book on the recommendation of my brother-in-law and that's another bone I have to pick with him. In fairness, he recommended Lee Child and Jack Reacher, not 'The Enemy' in particular. 'The Enemy' fills in the back story of Reacher's life and long-time readers will likely appreciate that, but not yet being a long-time reader, I wouldn't know if that saves this book or not. I like action/adventure books (Robert Ludlum, Frederick Forsyth, John Case - I've even choked down many of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan paperweights), so I should like Lee Child and Jack Reacher, but this book did not do it for me. Careful police work and some bare-knuckle action led to an implausible (OK, stupid and silly) climax. But, since I really do respect my bro-in-law (after all, he also recommended Alan Furst) and so many other readers also rave about the Jack Reacher series, I will likely give Child another go.
    • 5/5
      Another excellent Reacher story, this time it is back in 1990 and he is still a Major in the MP. Europe is changing with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the US Army is feeling under threat with its future role in question. This impacts Reacher who suddenly finds himself posted from Panama back to Fort Bird in N Carolina and investigating the death of a General on his patch on New Year's Eve. Excellent sounding military detail, with strongly drawn characters and intriguing plot which keeps you guessing to the final pages.
    • 5/5
      Reacher is a hard guy military police detective. He reminds me of Spenser in novels by Robert Parker, but without the humor. He's a great character. The book begins with a heart attack. It ends with things he never does and people he never sees again. I actually read this book twice, years apart, and I almost never read a book twice. Yet it was still great.
    • 4/5
      As usual for the Jack Reacher novels, this is a quick and entertaining read. As usual also, the mystery isn't all that mysterious. Maybe it is just me, but I have yet to come across a Jack Reacher novel in which I don't smell the big surprise a few hundred pages before it is revealed to the readers.Still, it is good, undemanding airport literature.
    • 5/5
      This may have been my favorite Jack Reacher novel. The mystery was interesting, the process of solving it was interesting, the characters were interesting. OK, so I found it interesting. Plus, the book offered plenty of opportunities for Reacher to be Reacher (with a bonus of getting to see Reacher react to Delta Force soldiers). I particularly enjoyed seeing how Reacher behaved while still in the military (this book takes place a number of years before Killing Floor and is therefore the first book chronologically in the Reacher series). An additional bonus was the opportunity to see Reacher interact with both his brother and mother. Highly recommended (but, despite the fact that this book is chronologically first, it should not be read before Killing Floor).
    • 5/5
      An awesome book as good or better than previous Lee Childs books!
    • 5/5
      one of the best he has written yet. keep up the good work.
    • 5/5
      I hated to see this story end!
      Gripping through all the crazy details Child’s introduces through Reachers observations.
      Btw - wait for it...
    • 5/5
      It's Reacher, Nuff said! on to the next one. !
    • 5/5
      Good read. Jack reacher is always good to read
    • 3/5
      BOTTOM-LINE:Nice backstory, weak mystery.PLOT OR PREMISE:Jack Reacher is still in the military and gets transferred out of Panama just before New Year's Eve, 1989. The Berlin Wall is falling, Panama is heating up with Noriega, and Reacher is watching grass grow at his new post, until a General drops dead at a seedy motel..WHAT I LIKED:The story gives more of Reacher's back story, and it is interesting to see the "man alone" working within a command structure with others. And it is an interesting premise -- what do you do in the military when the future looks like you're about to become obsolete? The supporting characters were good, and it was nice to see Reacher with his brother and mother. At the end, there is a twist about an error Reacher makes early on that comes back to bite him, and it is a great element to keep. The aftermath is kind of abrupt, with who went where and what happened next, but hard to avoid in a "flashback" style story..WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE:The premise for the story is a little far-fetched, but when they get to the final reveal, the real specific motive is ridiculous as the people involved would never have done what they did, at least not on paper, and not openly. Reacher stumbles around in the dark long past where certain lines of enquiry should have been obvious, and particulalry for the identify of a specific witness. And the killer..DISCLOSURE:I received no compensation, not even a free copy, in exchange for this review. I am not personal friends with the author, nor do I follow him / her on social media.