Reacher’s at it again; out to save whatever soul falls
across his path, only this time he is drawn in to his old Battalion command,
the 110th through the voice of a woman; a woman who is in his former
position, commander of the unit, Major Susan Turner.
Seems Reacher has finally been turned by female wiles. He
thought her voice sounded nice and he wanted to take her to dinner. Instead he
gets taken. It appears he killed a man in a fight years ago and the army has
finally charged him now he is back on their territory. Also he is wanted by a
former girlfriend who wants child support. Could this be the end of the Reacher
episodes after eighteen books? He is back in the army, charged under military
court martial, and has a child to support with apparently a new girlfriend, who
by the way has been removed from her post for taking a bribe.
Reacher was never one to sit and languish in a cell. And anyway
he smells a rat. Someone with a voice as sweet as Susan Turner could never have
taken a bribe, he’s sure of that. He breaks them out of jail and they begin a
cross country chase to discover the truth on all the above allegations. As
usual nothing is what was initially conceived to be but it is the way that
Reacher discovers the truth and sticks it to the man at the same time that is
classic Lee Child at his best.
Without giving the plot away let it suffice to say that Reacher
lives to wander on in his normal post-conquest way and Child will be bringing
him back to you as soon as the nineteenth volume is hot off the presses.
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