The seventeenth and latest book in the popular series of suspense thrillers about former Army MP Major Jack Reacher, now his own very independent dispenser of justice.
Reacher's just trying to get from Nebraska to Virginia. There's a woman there he wants to meet. He's only talked to her on the phone a few times, but she intrigues him.
Standing on the eastbound lanes of an Interstate highway interchange in the middle of a cold winter night, with a badly broken nose from his last adventure, Reacher finally thumbs a ride with two guys and a woman headed to Chicago. But as they ride through the night, Reacher senses tension in the car. Little things --- offhand comments and actions --- that don't add up.
What Reacher doesn't know is that some ninety miles from where he was picked up, a man has been found stabbed to death, execution style, in an old pumping station. An eye witness happened to see three men go into the station but only two come out. Within minutes the county sheriff is on the case. The pumping station provides access to a huge underground aquifer; in this age of terrorism, that's enough to trigger a call to the FBI.
Roadblocks go up on the highways. The APB says two men in a red car; then two men in any kind of car; then two men and a woman in any kind of car. But no one is looking for three men and a woman. Not yet.
All Reacher wanted was a ride to get him down the road towards Virginia. But instead he finds himself in the middle of a massive conspiracy, an undercover terrorism investigation gone bad, and now both the bad guys AND the good guys are gunning for Reacher. It looks like the only way to extricate himself will require cleaning up the mess that others have made. Once again. So Reacher obliges.
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