The famous “never tell me the odds” attitude that he became so known for when his debut novel rocked the thriller world to its core in 2018 is front and center here. In a way, this book embodies everything Jack Carr is about. setting up an epic, violent showdown unlike anything else in print today. What they don’t know, though, is that past events are set to come storming back into the present-events that link to Reece. A secret cabal believes they’ve already managed to take the most powerful man-the president-and the most dangerous man-Reece-off the board, but they’re far from done. On the other side of those prison walls is an America that’s suffering from crippling inflation and a world that is on the brink of war. He doesn’t know who framed him or why, but Reece refuses to die alone in his cell, especially when he knows that things are just getting started.

There’s a callback to The Terminal List (which, of course, is now a hugely successful series on Amazon Prime starring Chris Pratt) as Reece fights his demons, keeping his mind and body ready to fight. But during this time, Carr churns out some of his finest and, certainly, most powerful writing, which also serves as a nice launch point for newcomers to the series.

The cell is small, pitch-black, and cold. Here, Reece does everything he can to keep his wits and not surrender to the crushing, depressing elements designed to break him. Then, readers saw Reece, who was staying at a friend’s cabin in Montana, arrested.Īfter a brutal year-long gap between books for his fans, during which many waited with bated breath, Carr locks readers in the dark cell with Reece where he’s being held. He was rushed to George Washington University Hospital, where, a short time later, he was pronounced dead. Previously, shots were fired at President Alec Christensen during a Veteran’s Day parade in the nation’s capital. Jack Carr’s #1 New York Times bestselling James Reece series continues with Only The Dead, his longest, most shocking, and most brutal novel to date.įollowing the cliffhanger ending in his last book, In The Blood (2022), Carr kicks off his latest thriller with James Reece in a special housing unit of the Florance Administrative Maximum Prison Facility.

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