

He is working with FBI Agents Duffy and xxx on the latter’s request – the motive is to penetrate Zachary Beck’s fortress-like residence. Turns out that the entire drama is a plot to get into the good graces of Richard and planned to install Reacher into the Beck household because, Richard Beck’s father is a notorious gang leader and the FBI is interested in evidence against him. When Reacher gets into the guest bedroom, he sends a message ‘I am in’. When Richard convinces Reacher against his will to take him to his house and his wife thanks Reacher for saving the son.

The kid is Richard Beck and says that people have tried to kidnap him before because he is the son of a rich oriental carpet merchant. He explains to the kid that even if it was an accident, he could not get himself arrested because he killed a cop. When security guys from the building come up towards his car, he escapes after damaging the car with gunshot. The narrator, Reacher, takes out the car and kills them both but also kills by mistake a cop who had come to investigate. Two tough guys try to kidnap a man going in a car by sabotaging it, and take the guy to their car.

The story starts with heart pounding action from the first paragraph. The three earlier examples are Without Fail, Echo Burning and Running Blind. "A story that will sweep you along as fast as some of the riptides Reacher survives.We have reviewed many Jack Reacher books here before. so fast-paced it makes the eyeballs spin."

There he will find a world of secrecy and violence-and confront some unfinished business from his own past. Trying to rescue an agent whose time is running out, Reacher enters a crime lord's waterfront fortress. Staging a brilliant ruse, Reacher hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise. DEA Susan Duffy is living for the future, knowing that she has made a terrible mistake by putting one of her own female agents into a death trap within a heavily guarded Maine mansion. And with a burning desire to right wrongs-and rewrite his own agonizing past. Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights.".
