A string of mysterious deaths. A long-classified mission. A young MP with nothing to lose. 1992. All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don´t appear to be connected-until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the secretary of defense. All of a sudden he wants an interagency task force to investigate. And he wants Jack Reacher as the army´s representative. If Reacher gets a result, great. If not, he´s a convenient fall guy. But office politics isn´t Reacher´s thing. Three questions quickly emerge: Who´s with him, who´s against him, and will the justice he dispenses be the official kind . . . or his own kind?