by Lee Child
Part of Jack Reacher, book 8
First published 2005
New Year's Day 1990 finds Jack Reacher, elite military investigator, staring at a dead two-star general in a North Carolina motel. The briefcase is gone. Nobody knows what it contained. Reacher gets orders to control the situation, but control proves impossible. The general's wife turns up murdered hundreds of miles away. Two Special Forces soldiers die next. Military commanders get shuffled around like chess pieces. Someone inside the Army is setting up Reacher as the fall guy. He teams with a young female lieutenant to hunt the real killers from a rural army base to the streets of Paris. His dying French mother reveals a family secret that forces Reacher to question everything he believed about his past, his career, and his loyalties. This soldier's son walks into darkness to face an enemy conspiracy more dangerous than he imagined.
Genres: military-fiction, adventure, mystery, crime, thriller, action
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: North Carolina, Paris, Rural Army Base
Period: 1990
496 pages · Paperback · Dell