The Enemy

Reacher, Jack. Superhero. lonesome. warrior. Son of a soldier. He was one of the army's brightest stars, an exceptional military policeman. However, there comes a turning moment in the life of every officer. One instance. One disorganized, complex case has the power to ruin a career. Make a lawman become an outlaw. These cause him to doubt concepts like responsibility, honor, and bravery. In Jack Reacher's case, that is.

January 1st, 1990. The Wall of Berlin is down. The globe is evolving. A deceased two-star general is discovered at a hotel in North Carolina known as the "hot-sheets." He left his briefcase behind. Nobody is aware of its contents. Jack Reacher receives instructions to "control the situation" in a matter of minutes. But there is no control over this circumstance. The general's wife is killed hundreds of miles away in a matter of hours. Subsequently, the dominoes begin to fall.

One by one, two of the hardest of the hardest Special Forces troops are eliminated. Leading military generals are shifted about in an odd chess match. Additionally, Jack Reacher, an investigator for the 110th Special Unit and normally untouchable, is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man could have, somewhere within the massive global fortress that is the U.S. Army.

Reacher won't give up, however. His form of battle is unlike any other. Along for the fatal chase is a young female lieutenant, who follows him from the rough edges of a rural army station through the narrow streets of Paris to a surprise encounter with an adversary he never knew he had. After learning of her last, shocking secret from his dying mother, who was born in France, Reacher is forced to reevaluate all of his previous beliefs on his family, work, allegiances, and even himself. For the kid of this soldier is heading into the unknown, where he will discover a complex web of intense passions, terrible demise, and a scheme that is more sinister, cunning, and cunning than anybody could have imagined.