Reacher remains engaging and charming in his own emiotionally handicapped way, and Child again emerges a worthy successor to Tom Clancy. A-.
--Entertainment, Weekly
Known for hold-your-breath action scenes, Child proves equally adept at portraying how a criminal investigation uses the smallest of building blocks to con struct a compelling circumstantial case. Combine that with finely textured relationships--always an extra dimension in this series--and you have a novel that takes Child in a new direction, but does so flawlessly.
--Booklist (starred review)
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 one case that changes everything. For Jack Reacher, this is that case…
New Year's Day, 1990. In a North Carolina 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. Within hours the general's wife is murdered. Then the dominoes really start to fall...
Somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Reacher 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--against an enemy he didn't know he had. And against a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious,and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.
