New Year<U+2019>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<U+2019>t be controlled. Within hours the general<U+2019>s wife is murdered hundreds of miles away. Then the dominoes really start to fall. Two Special Forces soldiers<U+2014>the toughest of the tough<U+2014>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<U+2014>an ordinarily untouchable investigator for the 110th Special Unit<U+2014>is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have. But Reacher won<U+2019>t quit. He<U+2019>s fighting a new kind of war. And he<U+2019>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<U+2019>t know he had. With his French-born mother dying<U+2014>and divulging to her son one last, stunning secret<U+2014>Reacher is forced to question everything he once believed<U+2026>about his family, his career, his loyalties<U+2014>and himself. Because this soldier<U+2019>s son is on his way into the darkness, where he finds a tangled drama of desperate desires and violent death<U+2014>and a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.