Never Go Back

Jack Reacher spent thirteen years as an Army military policeman, and the 110th MP headquarters outside Washington, D.C. is the nearest thing he has ever had to a home. He returns there for a reason that has nothing to do with nostalgia. He wants to meet Major Susan Turner, the unit's new commanding officer, who until now has been only a warm and intriguing voice on the telephone. Turner is not at her post. Instead, Reacher finds himself accused of a crime serious enough to change the course of his life. He is a man who answers a threat by hitting back, and he does so here. His aim is to track down Turner and clear his own name, though he is only a step ahead of the Army, the FBI, the D.C. Metro police, and four unidentified thugs who seem to want him gone. As the pursuit tightens, the case becomes more than a question of who set him up. Reacher is forced to examine who he is, what he has done in the past, and whether the drifting, rootless life he chose on the open road has a future. Never Go Back is a fast, tense entry in Lee Child's Jack Reacher series, and it is also the story that tests what Reacher is willing to face about himself.