02424cam a2200421 4500 128602512 TxAuBib 20130220120000.0 120905s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012018420 2012033765 9780385344333 hbk. 0385344333 hbk. 9780440339366 ebk. 0440339367 ebk. 9781451628685 hc 1451628684 hc TxAuBib Jance, Judith A. Deadly stakes : a novel / J. A. Jance. Wanted man, A : a Jack Reacher novel. 1st Touchstone hardcover ed. New York : Touchstone, 2013. 290 p. ; 24 cm. Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don't add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia. An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional, the killers vanished. Within minutes, the police are notified. Within hours, the FBI descends, laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was there. All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat to both sides at once. Contacted to investigate the gruesome murder of a gold-digging divorcee on behalf of the woman accused of the crime, police academy-trained former reporter Ali Reynolds is simultaneously drawn into another case that could be related to hers and must stop a dangerous killer from striking again. 20130220. Reacher, Jack (Fictitious character) Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Ex-police officers Fiction. Private investigators Fiction. Conspiracies Fiction. mystery fiction. Reynolds, Ali (Fictitious character) Fiction. Arizona Fiction. Child, Lee. TXCTM