Lee Child · 2007 · thriller

Lee Child's 2007 Jack Reacher thriller. A coded bank deposit summons Reacher when a member of his old army unit is murdered and thrown from a helicopter over the California desert. Reuniting the surviving investigators, he moves from Portland to Los Angeles and the dry country beyond, hunting whoever is picking off the team one by one.

1. 1
   Portland

   Reacher spots the distress signal, an odd sum of money wired to his account, and knows one of his old team is calling in a favor.

2. 2
   Los Angeles

   The surviving investigators regroup in the city and pick up the trail of a defense contractor with a lethal secret to protect.

3. 3
   California Desert

   In the empty high desert they find where their friends were dumped from the sky, and set about repaying it in kind.