The Midnight Line is the 22nd Jack Reacher thriller from Lee Child, and it may well be the best one he's written to date. As one reviewer says, this is the one that breaks your heart, as Reacher confronts the true cost of war intersecting with the opioid epidemic.
The new story begins where Make Me (2015) left off. Reacher and Michelle Chang spend three days together in Milwaukee. On the fourth morning, when he returns to the room with coffee, she's gone. Just a note left on the pillow. And he understands why.
So he gets on a bus and heads west. At a rest stop in a small sad town in Minnesota, Reacher takes a stroll to stretch his legs, He passes a pawn shop and in the window he sees a West Point class ring from 2005. It's tiny; a woman cadet's class ring. Why would she give it up? Reacher's a West Point graduate himself. He knows how hard she worked to earn the right to wear that ring. It's not something you'd let go of easily.
Reacher decides to trace the ring back to its owner. Not just to return the ring, but to make sure she's all right. If she's okay, he'll just walk away.
But the trail he finds leads, step by step, into a web of lies, and violence, and desperation. Eventually it leads Reacher to the desolate wilds of Wyoming and a ghost of a town called Mule Crossing. Where he crosses paths with a retired FBI agent turned private investigator from Chicago. Who knows all about this woman and what might have gone wrong. Reacher has his own kind of honor. If she's OK, he'll walk away. If she's not - he'll stop at nothing to set things right.
Reacher's on a quest for justice. Don't get in his way.
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