Jack Reacher, strolling nowhere, meets an attractive young woman, limping, struggling with her crutches, alone. Chained to the woman, locked in a dark, stifling van racing 2,000 miles across America, Reacher needs to know who he's dealing with. The kidnappers are saying nothing and his companion claims to be Holly Johnson, FBI agent. She's fierce enough and tough enough, but he knows there must be more to her than that. And at their remote, hostile destination, they will need to act as a team and trust each other, pitting raw courage and cunning against insane violence and seemingly hopeless odds, with their own lives and hundreds more at stake.
Child is a suspense writer to be reckoned with.
Reacher is refreshingly human and vulnerable. Jack Reacher is one of the more fully realized and intelligently resourceful heroes to come along in years.