Echo Burning

Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transport. In temperatures of over a hundred degrees, you-re lucky if a driver will open the door of his air-conditioned car long enough to let you slide in. That-s Jack Reacher-s conclusion.

He-s adrift in the fearsome heat of a Texas summer, and he needs to keep moving through the wide open vastness, like a shark in the water. The Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transport. In temperatures of over a hundred degrees, you-re lucky if a driver will open the door of his air-conditioned car long enough to let you slide in.

That-s Jack Reacher-s conclusion. He-s adrift in the fearsome heat of a Texas summer, and he needs to keep moving through the wide open vastness, like a shark in the water. The last thing he-s worried about is exactly who picks him up.

He never expected it to be somebody like Carmen. She-s alone, driving a Cadillac. She-s beautiful, young and rich.

She has a little girl who is being watched by unseen observers. And a husband who is in jail. Who will beat her senseless when he comes out.

If he doesn-t kill her first. Reacher is no stranger to trouble. And at Carmen-s remote ranch in Echo County there is plenty of it: lies and prejudice, hatred and murder.

Reacher can never resist a lady in distress. Her family is hostile. The cops can-t be trusted.

The lawyers won-t help. If Reacher can-t set things straight, who can?