Good and Valuable Consideration: Jack Reacher vs. Nick Heller

By Lee Child and Joseph Finder

In this short story from the thrilling anthology FaceOff, bestselling authors Lee Child and Joseph Finder—along with their popular series characters Jack Reacher and Nick Heller—team up for the first time ever.

When Jack Reacher sits down to watch a baseball game at a Boston bar, he has no way of knowing what kind of trouble is about to walk in the door—and not just because he’s a Yankees fan in a Red Sox town.

In this action-packed short story, Reacher and a new acquaintance—Sox fan Nick Heller—find themselves drawn into a much less friendly rivalry when the guy sitting between them at the bar turns out to be a marked man.

For more exciting pairs, check out all eleven short stories in FaceOff!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Release date: Sep 7, 2014
• ISBN: 9781476788791

Lee Child

Lee Child, previously a television director, union organizer, theater technician, and law student, was fired and on the dole when he hatched a harebrained scheme to write a bestselling novel, thus saving his family from ruin. Killing Floor went on to win worldwide acclaim. The Midnight Line, is his twenty-second Reacher novel. The hero of his series, Jack Reacher, besides being fictional, is a kindhearted soul who allows Lee lots of spare time for reading, listening to music, and watching Yankees and Aston Villa games. Lee was born in England but now lives in New York City and leaves the island of Manhattan only when required to by forces beyond his control. Visit Lee online at LeeChild.com for more information about the novels, short stories, and the movies Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, starring Tom Cruise. Lee can also be found on Facebook: LeeChildOfficial, Twitter: @LeeChildReacher, and YouTube: LeeChildJackReacher.

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Good and Valuable Consideration

A Reacher/Heller story

Lee Child and Joseph Finder

From the anthology FaceOff

Simon & Schuster

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LEE CHILD

VS. JOSEPH FINDER

When Joseph Finder decided to try a series character, he took many cues from Lee Child’s Jack Reacher. Joe named his hero Nick Heller and made him not a private eye, but a private spy. Nick works for politicians and governments and corporations, sometimes digging up secrets they’d rather keep buried. Like Jack Reacher, though, Nick’s sense of justice drives him. He’s a mix of blue collar and white collar, the son of a notorious Wall Street criminal, raised in immense wealth that evaporated when his father went to prison. He spent his formative years in a split-level ranch house in a working-class suburb of Boston.

By nature, Nick’s a chameleon. He can blend in among the corporate elite as easily as he does among the jarheads.

And, of course, he roots for the Boston Red Sox.

Jack Reacher, on the other hand, is a Yankees fan. His background is vastly different from Nick’s, but equally scattered. Reacher is an army brat, raised on military bases around the world: a man without a

Reviews for Good and Valuable Consideration

[jamespurcell · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Reacher and Heller interrupt their Red Sox/Yankees game viewing to clean an Albanian hit man's clock.

[alanteder · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

This is short story collaboration by Lee Child and Joseph Finder which is excerpted from the FaceOff anthology which consists of similar match-ups where various crime/thriller writers and characters have cross-over episodes in the manner of TV episodes or movie series.Child's Reacher and Finder's Heller seem to almost telepathically decide that they will join up to assist a hapless citizen in a sports bar who is being victimized by the local mob. Reacher is a bit too coldly mercenary about the whole business, but maybe he was just annoyed about the baseball game that they were trying to watch in the bar.

[JRP1986 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

First time reading a Jack Reacher (by Lee Child) book where he [Reacher] teamed up with someone with a similar demeanor/attitude.

Will look for additional Reacher/Heller novels in the future.

[delta61 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A very short novel with characters Reacher and Heller. No morals exist when criminals attack one of their own. They can work together for mutual benefit.

[MrsD46 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Short and oh so sweet with Reacher and Heller living by their vigilante code busting up those who prey on the defenseless. I've read all of Lee Child's Reacher stories but none of Joseph Finder's Heller stories. I will remedy this now.