The Secret
- 385
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 4 weeks on the list, peaked at #1
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Our view
“The Secret” returns Jack Reacher to 1992 and his army days, in a brisk thriller about a task force probing a string of deaths. Some readers welcome it as closer to the Reacher they know after recent entries they found repetitive. There are also those who feel something is missing, and who want him at the centre of the book instead of sharing it.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
A string of mysterious deaths. A long-classified mission. A young MP with nothing to lose. 1992. All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don’t appear to be connected—until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the secretary of defense. All of a sudden he wants an interagency task force to investigate. And he wants Jack Reacher as the army’s representative. If Reacher gets a result, great. If not, he’s a convenient fall guy. But office politics isn’t Reacher’s thing. Three questions quickly emerge: Who’s with him, who’s against him, and will the justice he dispenses be the official kind . . . or his own kind?
Reading order · Jack Reacher
Full order & progress →- Killing FloorStart here
7.67.6 / 10 - Die Trying
7.57.5 / 10 - Tripwire
7.57.5 / 10 - Running Blind
7.67.6 / 10 - Echo Burning
7.67.6 / 10 - Without Fail
7.77.7 / 10 - Persuader
7.77.7 / 10 - The Enemy
7.87.8 / 10 - One Shot
8.08.0 / 10 - The Hard Way
7.87.8 / 10 - Bad Luck and Trouble
7.97.9 / 10 - Nothing to Lose
7.57.5 / 10 - Gone Tomorrow
7.97.9 / 10 - 61 Hours
7.87.8 / 10 - Worth Dying For
7.97.9 / 10 - The Affair
7.97.9 / 10 - A Wanted Man
7.77.7 / 10 - Never Go Back
7.77.7 / 10 - Personal
7.77.7 / 10 - Make Me
7.77.7 / 10 - Night School
7.77.7 / 10 - The Midnight Line
7.77.7 / 10 - Past Tense
7.87.8 / 10 - Blue Moon
7.67.6 / 10 - The Sentinel
7.67.6 / 10 - Better off Dead
7.37.3 / 10 - No Plan B
7.67.6 / 10 - The SecretThis book
7.67.6 / 10 - In Too Deep
7.57.5 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 110 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 43% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 110 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Secret?
It has 385 pages — shorter than 59% of the ranked books in Thriller.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
If you liked this
The same shelf — Thriller — and a score of 7.6, the closest to this book.
