"Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels--tightly coiled thrillers about an ex-military cop who metes out lone-wolf justice--would be ridiculous revenge scenarios were the plots not so briskly convincing, the prose so artfully direct, and the action so satisfyingly blunt A slam-bang yam filled with Child's usual terse life-and-death lessons... Turns out, even when Reacher gets personal, he never gets mushy." --Entertainment Weekly

From a helicopter high above the California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher is pulled out of his wandering life--plunged into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends...and the people he once trusted with his life.

Reacher is the ultimate Ioner--no phone, no ties, no address.But a woman from his old military unit has found him--using a signal only the eight members of their elite team would know. Then 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 unravel the sudden disappearance of two other comrades.But Reacher won't give up--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.