Lee Child · 2009 · thriller

On a near-empty New York subway at two in the morning, Reacher watches a woman fit every marker of a suicide bomber, then shoot herself, and is pulled into a deadly tangle of Federal agents, a war-hero politician, and a secret from the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

1. 1
   New York

   Reacher's hard-won expertise turns a subway ride into a nightmare; the dead woman's secrets draw in the Hoths, the FBI, and worse.

2. 2
   Greensboro

   Reacher tracks the trail to Congressman John Sansom's Senate campaign, and the buried truth of a mission behind Soviet lines.

3. 3
   New York

   Back in the city the conspiracy detonates, and Reacher hunts Lila Hoth through Manhattan to its bitter end.