The Enemy

Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner.

Soldier. Soldier-s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army-s brightest stars.

But in every cop-s life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career.

Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.

New Year-s Day, 1990. Th Jack Reacher. Hero.

Loner. Soldier. Soldier-s son.

An elite military cop, he was one of the army-s brightest stars. But in every cop-s life there is a turning point. One case.

One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty.

For Jack Reacher, this is that case. New Year-s Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down.

The world is changing. And in a North Carolina -hot-sheets- motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing.

Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. But this situation can-t be controlled.

Within hours the general-s wife is murdered hundreds of miles away. Then the dominoes really start to fall. Two Special Forces soldiers-the toughest of the tough-are taken down, one at a time.

Top military commanders are moved from place to place in a bizarre game of chess. And somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Jack Reacher-an ordinarily untouchable investigator for the 110th Special Unit-is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have.

But Reacher won-t quit. He-s fighting a new kind of war. And he-s taking a young female lieutenant with him on a deadly hunt that leads them from the ragged edges of a rural army post to the winding streets of Paris to a confrontation with an enemy he didn-t know he had.

With his French-born mother dying-and divulging to her son one last, stunning secret-Reacher is forced to question everything he once believed-about his family, his career, his loyalties-and himself. Because this soldier-s son is on his way into the darkness, where he finds a tangled drama of desperate desires and violent death-and a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.