Jack Reacher is traveling around the countryside - just for the experience. After his days in the military, he gets satisfaction by traveling around America and helping people in need, when necessary.
He comes to a town Mother's Rest. It's a desolate town set among the wheat fields with nothing much to offer other than a train station.
Reacher meets Michelle Chang a former FBI agent, now a private investigator. She's looking for her partner who had been hired to look into some secret of Mother's Rest but has now disappeared.
The story unfolds out as if it was written for Alfred Hitchcock. The town is hiding something and Jack and Michelle team up and retrace the steps of Michelle's missing partner to learn about the person who hired them.
The townsfolk they encounter are unhelpful and closed mouth. It was as if Jack and Michelle ran into a mid-western version of "The Valley of the Dolls"
As Reacher and Michelle peel back the hidden layers of the story, the suspense mounts and the secret being hidden comes to a frightening light.
This is a well told story with well described characters placed in a situation where the reader can relate to and wonder what they might do if they were ever in a similar situation.
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I've never read a bad Jack Reacher novel—Lee Child is an amazingly prolific, creative, and scintillating writer! Thanks for the review, Mike!
Sheila K.
skkorman AT bellsouth DOT net
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