This book follows our hero Jack Reacher on a quest into his father's past, and climaxes in the most blood-curdling ticking time bomb of an adventure yet. The present can be tense . . .

A young couple trying to get to New York City are stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. Before long they?re trapped in an ominous game of life and death. But the past can be worse . . .

Meanwhile, Jack Reacher sets out on an epic road trip across America. He doesn?t get far. Deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. But when he arrives he is told no one named Reacher ever lived there. Now he wonders: who?s lying?

As the tension ratchets up and these two stories begin to entwine, the stakes have never been higher for Reacher. That?s for damn sure.