Two lonely towns in Colorado Hope and Despair Between them twelve miles of empty road Jack Reacher never turns back Its not in his nature All he wants is a cup of coffee What he gets is big trouble So in Lee Childs electrifying new novel Reachera man with no fear no illusions and nothing to losegoes to war against a town that not only wants him gone it wants him dead It wasnt the welcome Reacher expected He was just passing through minding his own business But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope setting up a base of operations against Despair where a huge seething walled-off industrial site does something nobody is supposed to see where a small plane takes off every night and returns seven hours later where a garrison of well-trained and well-armed military copsthe kind of soldiers Reacher once commandedwaits and watches where above all two young men have disappeared and two frightened young women wait and hope for their returnJoining forces with a beautiful cop who runs Hope with a cool hand Reacher goes up against Despairagainst the deputies who try to break him and the rich man who tries to scare himand starts to crack open the secrets starts to expose the terrifying connection to a distant war thats killing Americans by the thousandNow between a town and the man who owns it between Reacher and his conscience something has to give And Reacher never gives an inch.
