Video: Jack Reacher Returns!

Hot off the heels of his mega-bestselling 2010 with two instant #1 New York Times hardcover bestsellers 61 Hours and Worth Dying For, both Lee Child and his iconic hero Jack Reacher return in THE AFFAIR, which will be published as a Delacorte Press Hardcover on September 27, 2011.

Already praised as "remarkable" (starred review, Booklist) and "compelling" (Publishers Weekly), THE AFFAIR goes back in Reacher's past to give readers the history behind one of literature's most revered loners and the breaking point that turned him into the incorruptible vigilante hero he is today.

"The Pentagon is the world's largest office building, six and a half million square feet, thirty thousand people, more than seventeen miles of corridors, but it was built with just three street doors, each one of them opening into a guarded pedestrian lobby...It was Tuesday, the eleventh of March, 1997, and it was the last day I walked into that place as a legal employee of the people who built it."

So begins THE AFFAIR, which takes readers back to the origins of Reacher-before he packed his toothbrush and started walking. There was a last military case and a twist in Reacher's own life he never saw coming: the one that shook him free forever of the Army establishment and the one that shaped him into the fighter we know and love, and the incident that would stand as the embodiment of his unshakable code of ethics. Reacher is dispatched to a base in the heart of Mississippi to investigate the brutal killing of a young local woman who was last seen with a soldier. But when Reacher arrives, he quickly discovers that this victim wasn't the first-and ties to her death go all the way back to the very heart of the Army establishment in our nation's capitol.

THE AFFAIR is the kind of explosive thriller only Lee Child could write and only Jack Reacher could tackle-a heart-racing page-turner no one will want to miss.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Lee Child is the author of 16 Jack Reacher thrillers, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow, 61 Hours and Worth Dying For. His debut, The Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry Awards for Best First Mystery, and The Enemy won the Nero Wolfe Award. Foreign rights in the Jack Reacher series have been sold in 40 languages, and there are more than 50 million copies in print of his novels worldwide. One Shot is under major motion picture development with Paramount. Child, a native of England and a former presentation director for Granada, lives in New York City, where he is at work on his next novel, to be published in 2012 by the Delacorte Press. Visit his website at www.leechild.com.