Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier's son. An elite military
cop, he was one of the army's brightest stars. But in every cop's life
there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can
shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question
words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.
New Year's Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is
changing. And in a North Carolina "hot-sheets" motel, a two-star general
is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it.
Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. But
this situation can't be controlled. Within hours the general's wife is
murdered hundreds of miles away. Then the dominoes really start to fall.
Two Special Forces soldiers--the toughest of the tough--are taken down,
one at a time. Top military commanders are moved from place to place in
a bizarre game of chess. And somewhere inside the vast worldwide
fortress that is the U.S. Army, Jack Reacher--an ordinarily untouchable
investigator for the 110th Special Unit--is being set up as a fall guy
with the worst enemies a man can have.
But Reacher won't quit. He's fighting a new kind of war. And he's taking
a young female lieutenant with him on a deadly hunt that leads them from
the ragged edges of a rural army post to the winding streets of Paris to
a confrontation with an enemy he didn't know he had. With his
French-born mother dying--and divulging to her son one last, stunning
secret--Reacher is forced to question everything he once
believed...about his family, his career, his loyalties--and himself.
Because this soldier's son is on his way into the darkness, where he
finds a tangled drama of desperate desires and violent death--and a
conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could
have guessed.
