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Child, Lee, 1954-

Safe enough : and other stories / Lee Child. - London : Bantam, 2024. - xiii, 315 pages ; 24 cm.

The bodyguard -- The greatest trick of all -- Ten keys -- Safe enough -- Natural in every way -- The .50 solution -- Public transportation -- Me and Mr. Rafferty -- Section 7 (a) (Operational) -- Addicted to sweetness -- The bone-headed league -- I heard a romantic story -- My first drug trial -- Wet with rain -- The truth about what happened -- Pierre, Lucien & Me -- New blank document -- Shorty and the briefcase -- Dying for a cigarette -- The snake-eater by the numbers.

I was the guy who always found a way. I was the guy that couldn't be stopped. A drug-dealing hit man unburdens his fears to a stranger. An overlooked rookie cop is assigned to the department's file room. A ruthless killer only kills bad guys. A methodical bodyguard quits his job when he's outsmarted. A military mission is planned to perfection... Meticulously plotted and utterly compelling, these are intimate portraits of humanity at its best and worst. Each story is entirely distinct. And with their economical prose and unexpected twists, each could only have been written by the creator of Jack Reacher.

ISBN: 9780857506801 0857506803

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency --Officials and employees--Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Assassins--Fiction.
Gangsters--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Thrillers (Fiction)
Short stories.

Dewey Class. No.: 823.92