Someone has tried to kill the French president. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? John Kott--a U.S. Army marksman gone bad--is one of them. After fifteen years in prison, he's out . . . and there's a G8 summit coming up, packed with enough world leaders to tempt any assassin.
If anyone can stop Kott, it's the man who beat him before: Jack Reacher. And though he'd rather work alone, Reacher is teamed with rookie analyst Casey Nice. They're facing a rough road, full of local thugs, double-crosses, and no backup if things go wrong. Reacher never gets too close. But this time it's personal.
This edition includes the bonus short story "Not a Drill."
"Yet another satisfying page-turner."--Entertainment Weekly
"Reacher is always up for a good fight, most entertainingly when he goes mano a mano with a seven-foot, 300-pound monster of a mobster named Little Joey. But it's Reacher the Teacher who wows here."--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
"Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of. I read every one as soon as it appears."--Ken Follett
"Reacher's just one of fiction's great mysterious strangers."--Maxim
"If you like fast-moving thrillers, you'll want to take a look at this one."--John Sandford
"Fans won't be disappointed by this suspense-filled, riveting thriller."--Library Journal (starred review)
"Child is the alpha dog of thriller writers, each new book zooming to the top of best-seller lists with the velocity of a Reacher head butt."--Booklist
"Every Reacher novel delivers a jolt to the nervous system."--Kirkus Reviews
Praise for the Jack Reacher series
"The truth about Reacher gets better and better. . . . This series [is] utterly addictive."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of. I read every one as soon as it appears."--Ken Follett
"Reacher is the stuff of myth. . . . One of this century's most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes."--The Washington Post
"I'm a fan."--James Patterson
"The Reacher novels are easily the best thriller series going."--NPR
"Reacher is a man for whom the phrase moral compass was invented: His code determines his direction. . . . You need Jack Reacher."--The Atlantic
"I pick up Jack Reacher when I'm in the mood for someone big to solve my problems."--Patricia Cornwell
"[A] feverishly thrilling series . . . You can always count on furious action."--Miami Herald