# The Secret

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- Book: [The Secret](https://www.bookquiver.com/lee-child/the-secret) ([The Secret.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lee-child/the-secret.md))
- Authors: [Lee Child](https://www.bookquiver.com/lee-child), [Andrew Child](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-grant)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-05-5217-756-6
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2024-03-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient wakes to find two strangers by his bed. They show him a list of names and ask a simple but impossible question. Minutes later he falls to his death from his twelfth-floor window - a fall which generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher, recently demoted from Major, is assigned as the Army's representative. If he gets a result, great. If not, he's a convenient fall guy. Reacher may be an exceptional military investigator, but office politics aren't what gets him up in the morning. As he races to identify a cold-blooded killer and uncover a secret that stretches back 23 years, he must navigate around his new partners. Will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way . . . or his way?