Book Passage and ExtendedSession Present

Lee Child and Andrew Child

Celebrating the release of

Better Off Dead

Recorded: 10/29/2021

Book Passage and ExtendedSession Present

Lee Child and Andrew Child

Celebrating the release of

Better Off Dead

Recorded: 10/29/2021

Join award-winning authors Lee and Andrew Child live to celebrate Better Off Dead.

Jack Reacher is back in a brand-new page-turning thriller from acclaimed #1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.

“Jack Reacher is back and he’s as good as ever. Other authors have aged their characters, giving them wisdom but adding in creaky bones and grey hair. The Childs, brothers, have kept their protagonist intact, as wily and capable in book #26 as he was in the beginning. “ Good Reads

Digging graves had not been part of my plans when I woke up that morning. 

Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun—until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel.

Dead? No, nothing is what it seems. 

The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who might be mixed up with some dangerous people. Most of them would rather die than betray their terrifying leader, who has burrowed his influence deep into the nearby border town, a backwater that has seen better days. The mysterious Dendoncker rules from the shadows, out of sight and under the radar, keeping his dealings in the dark.

He would know the fate of Fenton’s brother. 

Reacher is good at finding people who don’t want to be found, so he offers to help, despite feeling that Fenton is keeping secrets of her own. But a life hangs in the balance. Maybe more than one. But to bring Dendoncker down will be the riskiest job of Reacher’s life. Failure is not an option, because in this kind of game, the loser is always better off dead.

Lee Child

About Lee Child

Lee Child is #1 New York Times bestsellling author of the Jack Reacher thrillers and the complete Jack Reacher story collection, No Middle Name. All his novels have been optioned for major motion pictures—including Jack Reacher (based on One Shot)and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. A native of England and a former television director, Child lives in New York City.

Andrew Child

About Andrew Child

Andrew Child, who also writes as Andrew Grant, is the author of RUNFalse PositiveFalse Friend, False WitnessInvisible, and Too Close to Home. Child and his wife, the novelist Tasha Alexander, live on a wildlife preserve in Wyoming. He is the co-author of the #1 bestselling Jack Reacher novel The Sentinel.