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luigirovatti's avatar

I bought a book, a few years ago, an omnibus of Jack Reacher, containing its first 16 novels. When I post the cover, could you help me track down the edition and the other details of this book?

Asked by luigirovatti (3001points) January 22nd, 2021

Here it is: https://imgur.com/a/o6U0mLa

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Nomore_lockout's avatar

Maybe check a book store and see if they can tack it down?

Zaku's avatar

Does it not have an ISBN number in the front?

Zaku's avatar

I spent a while looking anyway. There are WAY too many Jack Reacher books published, with various formats and collections, and that one was not rising to the top of any of my searches on various sites.

Another thing that might help track it down would be who the publisher of that collection is, or any other such specific information.

Otherwise, Jack Reacher series / collection looks like it is going to be way too generic to search for, with many other more common matches that are different things.

… Well, Google reverse image search… I think may be having trouble because you didn’t crop the image to only be the cover itself. But the results I get look like they are to some pirate web site offering a download of it, and not offering any publication information. Is this a physical book you have, or just a digital version? The cover image is so generic and featureless, that combined with the above result, I’m starting to think it might just be an electronic pirate edition. Is that possible?

elbanditoroso's avatar

this where Reacher’s friends are thrown out of a helicopter

Jeruba's avatar

A book may appear in print, same content, same edition, with many different covers. Sometimes a new paperback release will be on sale with several alternative covers right at the same time, side by side, as a marketing gimmick, so you can’t go by that. Chances are you’ll have to find a number somewhere.

Zaku's avatar

@snowberry No, that’s book #19.

Nomore_lockout's avatar

The only novels I ever bought in series were C.S. Forster Horatio Hornblower books. But I think if you check Barnes and Nobles they can track it down, even an out of print book. Used or whatever.

snowberry's avatar

@Zaku Well, that site abebooks.com or another used/out of print book seller is likely to be your best shot at finding it.

Zaku's avatar

Good idea, though it’s @luigirovatti who is looking for it, not me, and it looks like he wants information about it, rather than the book itself, which he says he already has (an electronic version?).

But the cover he shared looks about as useful as someone putting the words “Ian Flemming – James Bond Collection” on a cheap basic image of the outline of a man, a helicopter and a cloud. Since the only matches I found seem to be Asian and Russian PDF pirate sites, I think this may be a bootleg.

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