“I just read the new Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. This is not just a good story it is a story with a purpose and a message.” - Huffington Post This is Child’s most emotional book to date. “A perfect example of Lee Child’s talent. Child’s outrage over it is only just barely contained.” - The Philadelphia Inquirer Child weaves in a passionately told history of opioids in American life.
“A timely, suspenseful, morally complex thriller, one of the best I’ve read this year. “Puts Reacher just where we want him.” - The New York Times Book Review Powerful forces are guarding a vast criminal enterprise. Turns out the ring was just a small link in a far darker chain. The deeper Reacher digs, and the more he learns, the more dangerous the terrain becomes. So begins a harrowing journey that takes Reacher through the upper Midwest, from a lowlife bar on the sad side of small town to a dirt-blown crossroads in the middle of nowhere, encountering bikers, cops, crooks, muscle, and a missing persons PI who wears a suit and a tie in the Wyoming wilderness. What he finds ugly secrets, human suffering, political evil is repulsive to a man who's been around as many blocks as Reacher.The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside. Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years. He begins taking a hard look at both Carmen and Sloop's past, as well as local history. Most wandering heroes would move on at this point, but not Reacher. He's found shot dead, and Carmen is arrested. Within hours of Sloop's return from prison, where he was serving time for tax evasion, violence strikes. Reacher declines, but agrees to protect Carmen, hiring on as a cowhand at the couple's remote ranch in Echo County, Tex., far outside Pecos. Sloop Greer is getting out of prison in a few days, and Carmen fears he will start beating her again. The rugged former army cop comes to the aid of Carmen Greer, who picks him up on the side of the road one morning outside Lubbock, then asks him to kill her abusive husband. Jack Reacher, the vagabond freelance lawman who never hesitates to stick his nose into private business, takes his lively act to Texas, embroiling himself in what starts as a messy domestic dispute before turning far more ominous.
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