Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between
them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns
back. It's not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of
coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child’s
electrifying new novel, Reacher—a man with no fear, no
illusions, and nothing to lose—goes to war against a town
that not only wants him gone, it wants him dead.

It wasn’t the welcome Reacher expected. He was just
passing through, minding his own business. But within
minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and
Reacher is back in Hope, setting up a base of operations
against Despair, where a huge, seething walled-off
industrial site does something nobody is supposed to
see . . . where a small plane takes off every night and
returns seven hours later . . . where a garrison of well-
trained and well-armed military cops—the kind of soldiers
Reacher once commanded—waits and watches . . . where above
all two young men have disappeared and two frightened
young women wait and hope for their return.

Joining forces with a beautiful cop who runs Hope with a
cool hand, Reacher goes up against Despair—against the
deputies who try to break him and the rich man who tries
to scare him—and starts to crack open the secrets, starts
to expose the terrifying connection to a distant war
that’s killing Americans by the thousand.

Now, between a town and the man who owns it, between
Reacher and his conscience, something has to give. And
Reacher never gives an inch.