The release date for the English version of 'Echo Burning' by
Lee Child is Apr 2002. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Riding the bus alone is an unreliable form of transportation. It's a rare sight to see a motorist willing to open the door of his air-conditioned automobile long enough for you to get inside at temperatures over one hundred degrees. That's the end of Jack Reacher. He must keep going across the big open space, like a shark in the ocean, as he is adrift in the intense heat of a Texas summer. Who precisely takes him up is the last thing on his mind.
It never occurred to him that it would be Carmen. She drives a Cadillac by herself. She's young, attractive, and well-off. Unseen watchers are keeping an eye on her small kid. and an imprisoned spouse. Who, when he comes out, is going to beat her senseless? if he doesn't murder her first.
Reacher has experienced problems before. And there is no shortage of it at Carmen's isolated ranch in Echo County: misinformation, bigotry, murder, and hate. Reacher can never turn away a woman in need. Her relatives are not kind. You can't trust the police. The attorneys refuse to assist. Who else can make things right if Reacher is unable to?