Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML: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 a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.
New Year�??s Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina �??hot-sheets�?� 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. But this situation can�??t be controlled. Within hours the general�??s wife is murdered hundreds of miles away. Then the dominoes really start to fall.
Two Special Forces soldiers�??the toughest of the tough�??are taken down, one at a time. Top military commanders are moved from place to place in a bizarre game of chess. And somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Jack Reacher�??an ordinarily untouchable investigator for the 110th Special Unit�??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. And he�??s taking a young female lieutenant with him on a deadly hunt that leads them from the ragged edges of a rural army post to the winding streets of Paris to a confrontation with an enemy he didn�??t know he had. With his French-born mother dying�??and divulging to her son one last, stunning secret�??Reacher is forced to question everything he once believed�?�about his family, his career, his loyalties�??and himself. Because this soldier�??s son is on his way into the darkness, where he finds a tangled drama of desperate desires and violent death�??and a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyo