When some people see a situation they know, through
training and experience, is going to go horribly wrong,
they may choose to act or not to act. They may choose to
convince themselves that what they "know" is incorrect,
that they do not have all the facts; that they need to give
the benefit of the doubt. They may choose to stare into
space and ignore the events around them and to be just
another bystander or just another witness. However, what
happens when someone decides, after careful analysis of the
situation, that he is right: something horrible is going to
happen and he needs to act? What happens if he realizes,
too late, that he was wrong? What happens if he realizes
that he actually made the situation worse?
Jack Reacher has never been a sit-back-and-pretend-the-
worst-won't-happen kind of guy. Therefore, when he is on an
almost empty subway and recognizes a woman displaying the
checklist of a suicide bomber, he cannot choose not to act.
However, his heroic efforts do not have the intended
reaction. Instead, they are the catalyst for him to become
embroiled in the secrets of a military man turned
politician, decades-old atrocities and duplicity upon
duplicity. As a matter of honor, Reacher wants to get to
the bottom of the situation; when he finds himself on the
run, he needs to discover the truth as a matter of survival.
As the latest action-packed novel in the Reacher series,
GONE TOMORROW can be enjoyed by one who has never picked up
one of Child's books before, or by long-time fans.
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.
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