The Christmas Scorpion
In a new short story available exclusively as an ebook, Jack Reacher’s spending the holidays in California. The last thing he expects is a blizzard—or a visit from the world’s deadliest assassin.
On Christmas Eve, Jack Reacher stumbles into a no-name bar in the California desert, desperate to take refuge from an unexpected snowstorm. Reacher came to Barstow for a little R&R. Instead, he’s sequestered in a dark little roadhouse with a bartender, a bewildered elderly couple—and two members of Britain’s Royal Military Police. They tell Reacher they were escorting a VIP to a top-secret meeting at a U.S. military base when they became separated from their charge. That’s when the threat came in from a notorious assassin: the Christmas Scorpion. Now they need a miracle to save the day. Or maybe all they need is Jack Reacher.
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Lee Child
Before he became the architect of modern vigilante fiction, Lee Child was a man on the brink of reinvention. In 1995, after being laid off from his job at Granada Television, he didn’t chase another corporate title. Instead, he sat down and started writing—armed with a blank page, a sharp sense of justice, and the idea of a lone drifter who didn’t belong anywhere but could set things right wherever he landed. That first story became Killing Floor. The character was Jack Reacher. And the rest is a revolution in the thriller genre.
Jack Reacher
He’s just passing through—no destination, no baggage, no need for a second chance. But when trouble brews, he doesn’t look away. He steps in. Quietly. Decisively. And once he does, nothing is ever the same again.
This is the brutal elegance of the Jack Reacher series: a world sketched in sharp edges and hard choices, where justice isn't handed down from above—it’s taken, one broken rule at a time. Each story drops you into a new setting—a forgotten town, a backroad diner, a tense urban sprawl—and strips everything down to essentials: a wrong that needs righting, and a man built to do it. The pacing is relentless, the prose spare, and the tension wired tight from the first page.
Jack Reacher consists of thirty primary books, and includes thirteen additional books that complement the series but are not considered mandatory reads and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of two more books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
