Everything starts somewhere. . . . For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A cover-up. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Reacher is ordered undercover -- to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish. Reacher...

"1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look like accidents and don't appear to be connected. Until one body - the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window - generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who promptly calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is assigned as the Army's representative. Reacher may be an exceptional...

Jack Reacher. The ultimate loner. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, heś moved from place to place... without family... without possessions... without commitments. And without fear. Which is good, because trouble -- big, violent, complicated trouble -- finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not once... not ever. But some unfinished business has now found Reacher. And Reacher is a man...