by Lee Child
Part of Jack Reacher, book 9
First published 2006
A sniper fires six shots from a parking garage thirty yards away. Five people die in what appears to be random violence. The police arrest James Barr, a trained military sniper, within hours. The case looks airtight until Barr makes an unexpected request. He wants Jack Reacher. Reacher arrives from his wandering life with no fixed address or phone. He has good reasons to avoid Barr, but when he hears what the accused man actually said, everything changes. The simple case becomes something else entirely. Reacher teams up with a defense lawyer who finds herself working against her own prosecutor father. The prosecution holds dangerous secrets of their own. Reacher moves through the shadows of this complex battlefield, hunting an unseen enemy who orchestrates events from behind the scenes. He must match this opponent's ruthlessness and cunning to reach the truth about who really pulled the trigger and why.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, action
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fish-out-of-water
Setting: Parking Garage
466 pages · Paperback · Dell Pub Co
Content warnings: graphic-violence, murder