I've been going back to read the early Jack Reacher thrillers by Lee Child; this is the third book in the series, published in 1999, when Child was still filling in the details of the character he created.
Reacher's down in Key West when the novel begins, digging pools by day and working security in a strip club by night to make some money. When a private investigator from New York City shows up looking for him, he sees no reason why he should get involved. Until two thugs also come looking for him and have to be actively discouraged from sniffing around. And then the P.I. turns up very, very dead, and the killers have gone to some trouble to make sure the corpse can't be easily identified.
Suddenly Reacher sees definite reasons to get involved. He heads for New York. His only lead is the P.I.'s client, the person who wants to find Reacher. A Mrs. Jacob. That name means nothing to Reacher --- yet. But Mrs. Jacob turns out to be someone who means a whole lot to Reacher. And the people she's trying to help --- a bewildered, elderly couple looking for answers in the death of their only son, still MIA in Vietnam after thirty years --- prod his conscience.
One man, hiding behind a web of violence and deceit and greed, knows the truth about what happened thirty years ago in Vietnam. Cunning, vicious, and prepared to kill, he lays his trap and waits for Reacher to take the bait.
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