All Jack Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. But when he gets into a car full of strangers, he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride…he’s unwittingly put himself in the middle of a massive conspiracy that makes him a target of the FBI, the CIA and an insidious terrorist plot.

His fellow passengers in the car say they’re simply employees from a software company, but the man behind the wheel and his friend are telling stories that don’t add up. And in the back is a woman, silent and worried, trying to communicate to Reacher with her frightened eyes that she may be a hostage.

An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional, the killers vanished. Within minutes, the police are notified. Within hours, the FBI descends, laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was there.

In Lee Child’s white-hot thriller, nothing is what it seems, and nobody is telling the truth. As the tension rises, the twists come fast and furious, keeping readers guessing and gasping until the explosive finale.