Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular series about Jack Reacher, hero of the blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise. It presents Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs, the perfect action hero.

Pacy debut novel from a British author, set in the Southern states of America, and intertwining a sinister murder conspiracy surrounding our hero, Jack Reacher, and a love story tinged with humour. As the body count mounts, it becomes clear that in Jack they picked on the wrong guy to take a fall. A film of the novel is already in production, and "Die Trying", by the same author, is also out this month in Bantam Press hardcover.