From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent
free-falling into the night.... In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite
team of ex-army investigators is being hunted down one by one.... And on
the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher--soldier, cop, hero--is pulled out
of his wandering life by a code that few other people could understand.
From the first shocking scenes in Lee Child's explosive new novel, Jack
Reacher is plunged like a knife into the heart of a conspiracy that is
killing old friends...and is on its way to something even worse.
A decade postmilitary, Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his
back--no phone, no ties, and no address. But now a woman from his old
unit has done the impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds
Reacher, using a signal only the eight members of their elite team of
army investigators would know. She tells him a terrifying story--about
the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is
reuniting with the survivors of his old team, scrambling to raise the
living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing
darker by the day. The deeper they dig, the more they don't know: about
two other comrades who have suddenly gone missing--and a trail that
leads into the neon of Vegas and the darkness of international
terrorism.
For now, Reacher can only react. To every sound. Every suspicion. Every
scent and every moment. Then Reacher will trust the people he once
trusted with his life--and take this thing all the way to the end.
Because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack
Reacher and his team, they'd better be ready for what comes right back
at them...
