Lee Child · 1998 · thriller

Lee Child's 1998 Jack Reacher thriller. Snatched off a Chicago street with a kidnapped woman, Reacher is driven across the country to a survivalist militia's armed compound in the wilds of Montana. Isolated at Yorke, he must fathom the group's plot and engineer an escape - and a reckoning - before the standoff with the government turns lethal.

1. 1
   Chicago

   Reacher helps a woman on crutches to her car and is seized along with her; she is Holly Johnson, an FBI agent and goddaughter of the Army Chief of Staff.

2. 2
   Horse Stables

   At a stop in North Dakota the kidnapper Peter Bell tries to assault Holly. Reacher works free of his restraints, kills him, hides the body and refastens himself before the others notice - and the FBI find Bell days later.

3. 3
   Yorke, Montana

   After a brutal cross-country haul the captives reach the remote compound of a separatist militia near the Canadian border, bent on seceding from the Union.

4. 4
   US 93

   The truck of explosives sent south for San Francisco is run down and shot from a helicopter over US 93 - and Reacher, having said goodbye to Holly, is left on the highway to hitch a ride somewhere else.