Bad Luck and Trouble

emphasis. Military police radio code for mission accomplished, twice over. 10-18, 10-18. Herself and O’Donnell, rescued. Or Lamaison and Mahmoud, beaten. Or both things.
    Nice, Karla, he thought.
    The second deposit was her zip code: 10012. Greenwich Village. Where she lived. A geographic reference.
    A hint.
    She had asked: Feel like dropping by New York afterward?
    He smiled again and balled up the slip of thin paper and dropped it in the trash. Took a hundred dollars from the machine and headed on inside the depot and bought a ticket for the first bus he saw. He had no idea where it was going.
    He had answered: I don’t make plans, Karla.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    LEE CHILD is the author of eleven Jack Reacher thrillers, including the New York Times bestsellers Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, which has been optioned for a major motion picture by Paramount Pictures, and The Hard Way . His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry Awards for Best First Mystery. Foreign rights in the Jack Reacher series have sold in forty territories. Child, a native of England and a former television writer, lives in New York City, where he is at work on his twelfth Jack Reacher thriller, Play Dirty .

ALSO BY LEE CHILD
    KILLING FLOOR
    DIE TRYING
    TRIPWIRE
    RUNNING BLIND
    ECHO BURNING
    WITHOUT FAIL
    PERSUADER
    THE ENEMY
    ONE SHOT
    THE HARD WAY

BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE
A Delacorte Press Book / May 2007

    Published by
Bantam Dell
A Division of Random House, Inc.
New York, New York

    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

    All rights reserved
Copyright © 2007 by Lee Child

    Delacorte Press is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

    Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

    Child, Lee.
Bad Luck and Trouble : a Jack Reacher novel / Lee Child.
p. cm.
    eISBN: 978-0-440-33685-3
    1. Reacher, Jack (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Military police—Fiction. 3. Serial murders—Fiction. 4. Snipers—Fiction. 5. Middle West—Fiction. I. Title

    PS3553.H4838 O53 2005
813'.54 22
2004058246

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