Jack Reacher meanders from place to place, his only travel accessory being a folding toothbrush.
One day, in Gerrardsville, Colorado, Reacher sees a woman sail under a bus....a fatal incident. Most pedestrians say the woman jumped, but from Jack's angle, he saw a man in a hoodie push the woman. The hoodie man then leaned under the bus and took the woman's purse.
Reacher follows the hoodie man and gets into a tussle with the perp and two of his associates. In the melee, Jack roughs up the scoundrels, who skedaddle, but not before Jack gets a peek into the victim's purse, which contains an envelope with papers and a photo.
The police investigate the incident and call it a suicide. But Reacher knows what he saw, and he sets out to get justice for the victim, whose name is Angela. It turns out Angela worked in a private prison in Mississippi, where she suspected serious wrongdoing.
Angela came to Gerrardsville to show the proof to her former prison co-worker, a man named Sam. Unfortunately, Sam just died as well, supposedly from a heart attack.
This 'coincidence' is too much for Reacher, and Jack and Sam's ex-wife Hannah conclude Sam was murdered.....just like Angela. So Reacher and Hannah set out for the prison in Mississippi, to run down the perpetrators.
The CEO of the Mississippi prison, who ordered the murders of Sam and Angela, learns that Reacher is on his way to Mississippi.
The CEO is worried, and sends his minions to stop Reacher by any means necessary. However Jack, who's very clever and tough, can take it, and dish it out a million times worse.
>As this is happening, other parties are also interested in the Mississippi prison.
A California teenager called Jed just learned that his biological father, whom he's never met, is getting released from the Mississippi prison in a few days. So Jed runs away from his foster home and takes off for Mississippi. It's a tough trip though, because Jed is the target of criminals along the way.
Also, a professional arsonist, whose drug-addict son died when his organs shut down, is out to get revenge against the people responsible. And these people are connected with the prison in Mississippi.
In time, all these story lines come together, in dramatic scenes.
Like all Reacher books, this is an exciting story filled with fighting, shooting, killing, running, hiding, etc. Just the book for action fans.
As an observation, I'd like to say that authors Lee Child and Andrew Child thought up a unique money-making scheme for this book.
Rating: 3.5 stars
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