New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading
uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are
okay. The fifth isn’t.
In the next few tense
seconds Reacher will make a choice–and trigger an
electrifying chain of events in this gritty, gripping
masterwork of suspense by #1 New York Times
bestseller Lee Child.
Susan Mark was the
fifth passenger. She had a lonely heart, an estranged son,
and a big secret. Reacher, working with a woman cop and a
host of shadowy feds, wants to know just how big a hole
Susan Mark was in, how many lives had already been twisted
before hers, and what danger is looming around him
now.
Because a race has begun through the streets
of Manhattan in a maze crowded with violent, skilled
soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. Susan Mark’s plain
little life was critical to dozens of others in
Washington, California, Afghanistan . . . from a former
Delta Force operator now running for the U.S. Senate, to a
beautiful young woman with a fantastic story to tell–and
to a host of others who have just one thing in common:
They’re all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or maybe
just enough to get him killed.
In a novel that
slams through one hairpin surprise after another, Lee
Child unleashes a thriller that spans three decades and
gnaws at the heart of America . . . and for Jack Reacher,
a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, it’s a
mystery with only one answer–the kind that comes when you
finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the
eye.