The story is anthologized in the collection FaceOff, which pairs signature protagonists from two authors in co-written stories. A young lieutenant colonel in a stylish handmade uniform roars through the damp woods of Georgia in her new silver Porsche, until she meets a very tall soldier with a broken-down car.

Reacher is tasked with finding out the person responsible for taking a long-distance shot at the French President, one of the suspects being a man Reacher tracked down once and put in jail sixteen years back for murder. This work is a crossover between the Jack Reacher and Temperance Brennan series, the latter with Kathy Reichs. He encounters various characters, both allies, including the new county District Attorney from the north, and foe, the police chief and the mayor, all on the payroll of the mastermind, a corrupt, philanthropic, "pillar of the community;" as he fights to prove his innocence. To be honest, this cannot be termed as the best Jack Reacher ever, but when all looked lost for us Reacher fans when Andrew Grant (aka Child) took over, this is kind of back on track of the vintage Reacher. We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work.

Reacher visits a hollowed-out town in Maine, where he witnesses a random bag-snatching but sees much more than a simple crime. Jack Reacher knew them, and he knows that they both left the Army under dubious circumstances, both victims of sexual harassment. The assignment that awaits him: the army is meeting with its Capitol Hill paymasters for classified talks on a new, state-of-the-art sniper rifle for US forces.

He finds out that she is attorney Jodie Garber, daughter of General Leon Garber, Reacher's recently deceased mentor and surrogate father in the Army. This work is a crossover between the Jack Reacher and Will Trent series, the latter with Karin Slaughter.

According to his bosses, it's a zero-danger mission, but Reacher knows that things are rarely what they seem.

Reacher and the woman are thrown into a dark van and taken 2,000 miles across America, completely unaware why they were kidnapped and where they are going.At the same time Reacher discovers the woman appears to be kidnapped and that the two men are the kidnappers. Finding themselves trapped in a seemingly remote place, they must work together to find the answers. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. Lee Child said, "Reacher's size in the books is a metaphor for an unstoppable force, which Cruise portrays in his own way.

The story has appeared in Fresh Blood 3 (1999), an anthology of mystery short stories edited by Mike Ripley and Maxim Jakubowski, [6] and in Thriller (2006), a short story anthology of thrillers written by International Thrillers, Inc. Obsessed with math like Reacher, Frances Neagley locates him because of the brutal death of one of their own. The action is interspersed with contemplative moments, such as when 13-year-old Jack's grandfather, a prosthetic-limb maker and World War I veteran in Paris, recounts that "… a great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. When someone makes a small anonymous deposit into Reacher's bank account, it triggers his fixation for math and his investigative instincts.He reasons with her, but she shoots herself; thereby proving Reacher wrong when he concluded she was a bomber. Fenton can’t locate her brother and Dendoncker’s goons have come to take her to him for information. Lee is the recipient of many awards, most recently Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards.