One Shot

emptied his pockets and left Emerson’s torn business card, and Helen Rodin’s cocktail napkin, and the motor court’s big brass key, and the Smith 60, and Gunny Cash’s Navy SEAL SRK, all in a neat little pile beside the front door. Then he asked the paramedics if he could ride with them to town. He figured he could walk east from the hospital and be at the bus depot before the sun was fully up. He could be in Indianapolis before lunch. Then he could buy a pair of shoes and be just about anywhere before the sun went down again.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    LEE CHILD is the author of nine Jack Reacher thrillers, including the
New York Times
bestsellers
Persuader
and
The Enemy
. 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 thirty-nine territories. Child, a native of England and former television writer, lives in New York City, where he is at work on his tenth Jack Reacher thriller,
The Hard Way.
Visit our website at www.bantamdell.com . Visit the author’s website at www.LeeChild.com .

Also by Lee Child
    KILLING FLOOR
    DIE TRYING
    TRIPWIRE
    RUNNING BLIND
    ECHO BURNING
    WITHOUT FAIL
    PERSUADER
    THE ENEMY

ONE SHOT
    A Delacorte Press Book / June 2005

    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 © 2005 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.
    One shot : a Jack Reacher novel / Lee Child.
    p. cm.
    eISBN: 0-440-33547-7
    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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