PAST TENSE.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.This copy is the Waterstone's exclusive edn with canary yellow edges and end-papers and bonus author interview complete with the Waterstone's "signed edition" sticker to front panel as issued.To the rear panel too,an adhesive overlaid ISBN + bar code label with a diiferent ISBN number (9781785174407) than the non-Exclusive issue of same book.] NFINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn but author's instantly recognisable handwritten,blue ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with both flat printed and embossed white+yellow lettering,rear panel with author's colour photographic portrait with critics' white+yellow lettered reviews,flat printed and glossy white+yellow lettered spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present. Top+fore-edges coloured canary yellow with minor blemishes but bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean, solid and sound - pristine text body with no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - but some accidental,uniform,small and minor bottom corner tips' creasing to pp257-306 inclusive in diminishing degrees,else would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a yellow headband and immaculate plain canary yellow endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, author SIGNED,1st edn,1-423pp [paginated] includes 45 chapters,plus 17pp extract of author's conversation between him and John Grisham at the Theakston Crime writing Festival,Harrogate,July 2018; plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED title page,in Memoriam page with blank reverse,and to the rear of the book; 2pp blanks.
After leaving his job as a Military Police Major,Reacher roams the US taking odd jobs. He'll arrive in town, come across someone who needs his help,solve a mystery and take out the bad guys,and then get on the next bus out of town.Reacher is never looking for trouble,but trouble always finds him.The Reacher books can be read in any order. Jack Reacher plans to follow the autumn sun on an epic road trip across America,from Maine to California. He doesn't get far.On a country road deep in the New England woods,he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born.He thinks, what's one extra day? He takes the detour.
At the very same moment,close by,a car breaks down.Two young Canadians are trying to get to New York City to sell a treasure.They're stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere.It's a strange place . . . but it's all there is.
The next morning in the city clerk's office,Reacher asks about the old family home.He's told no one named Reacher ever lived in that town.He knows his father never went back.Now he wonders,was he ever there in the first place?
So begins another nail-biting,adrenaline-fuelled adventure for Reacher.The present can be tense,but the past can be worse.That's for damn sure.
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