Publisher's Synopsis
"Child is a consummate thriller writer: his prose is trim but descriptive, his plots believable, fresh and positively airtight, and here he shows himself master of misdirection." TIME OUT You're in the army now, son... New Year's Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The Cold War is ending. Soon America won't have any enemies left. The army won't have anybody to fight. Things are going to change. Jack Reacher is the Military Police duty officer on a base in North Carolina when he takes a call reporting a dead soldier in a motel. Reacher tells the local cops to handle it - heart attacks happen all the time. But the dead man turns out to have been a two-star general who should have been in Europe. When Reacher goes to the general's house to break the news, he finds another corpse: the general's wife. What is he dealing with here? The echoes of the old world...or the first shocks of the new? Lee Child's latest thriller turns back the clock to Jack Reacher's army days. For the first time we meet a young Reacher in his dogtags and starched uniform, imposing army discipline.
