The First Gentleman

A coded message. A murdered comrade. A trail of blood leading straight to the heart of a shadowy conspiracy.

Jack Reacher is pulled back into the life he thought he left behind when a distress signal reaches him from Frances Neagley, his former Special Investigator colleague. Someone is eliminating members of their elite team, one by one.

Reuniting with the surviving members of his unit, Reacher embarks on a lethal hunt, following a web of cryptic clues across the country and into the hidden corridors of corporate power. What they uncover is a conspiracy more treacherous and far-reaching than they ever imagined, involving unthinkable sums of money and ruthless enemies who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.

Outnumbered and outgunned, Reacher and his team must rely on their razor-sharp instincts and battle-honed skills to expose the truth and bring the guilty to justice. But as the body count rises, Reacher faces a terrifying question: can he protect the people he cares about most, or will he become the next target? In a world of bad luck and trouble, Jack Reacher is the only force standing between order and oblivion.

In the heart of Rome, an ancient war is reignited. When Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to investigate a mysterious symbol seared into a murdered physicist's chest, he uncovers the unthinkable: the resurgence of the Illuminati, a powerful secret brotherhood thought to be long extinct.

With the Vatican on the brink of a holy conclave, a chilling message from the Illuminati confirms Langdon's worst fears—a devastating time bomb hidden somewhere in Vatican City. Racing against the clock, Langdon joins forces with Vittoria Vetra, a brilliant scientist, in a desperate fight to save the Vatican from annihilation.

Their frantic hunt plunges them into a labyrinth of sealed crypts, treacherous catacombs, and forgotten cathedrals. Following a 400-year-old trail of cryptic symbols, Langdon and Vetra must unlock the secrets of the Illuminati's hidden lair to find any hope of salvation. In this explosive thriller, science and religion collide in a battle where dark truths emerge, and the fate of the Vatican hangs in the balance.

1997. Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Behind a local bar, a young woman is found murdered, her throat slashed. Suspicion immediately falls on a soldier from the nearby army base, but powerful forces in Washington want the case buried.

Enter Jack Reacher, a Major in the military police, sent undercover to investigate. His orders: find the truth, control the local police, and disappear. But Carter Crossing holds secrets darker and deeper than anyone imagined.

Partnered with Elizabeth Deveraux, a former Marine and the fiercely independent county sheriff, Reacher navigates a maze of lies and hidden agendas. Deveraux is hungry for justice, but her own secrets leave Reacher questioning where her loyalties truly lie. As they delve deeper, the conspiracy threatens to shatter Reacher's faith in his mission and transform him into the kind of man he never wanted to be—one to be feared.

In this explosive thriller, set six months before Killing Floor, Lee Child takes you to a turning point in Jack Reacher's career, where doing what's right means risking everything.

In the brutal Alaskan wilderness, U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter's tracking skills are legendary. Raised in the Florida swamplands and hardened by military service in the Middle East, Cutter is the best there is—until a chilling case draws him to the remote forests of southeast Alaska.

A Tlingit girl's murder is just the beginning. Now, three people have vanished from Prince of Wales Island, including two members of a reality TV crew. Cutter must find the bodies, decipher the crew's footage for clues, and hunt down the killers. But in a town shrouded in secrets, where every trail leads to a dead end, the hunter is about to become the hunted.

From New York Times bestselling author Marc Cameron comes a thriller where the savage beauty of Alaska conceals a deadly game, and justice demands a high price.