Lee Child · 2015 · thriller

Reacher steps off a train at a lonely wheat-country halt called Mother's Rest just to learn how it got its name, and instead finds a missing investigator, a private eye named Michelle Chang, and a cross-country trail into the darkest corner of the internet.

1. 1
   Mother's Rest

   A silent, watchful town hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat, where Chang is waiting for a partner who never came and the locals want Reacher gone.

2. 2
   Oklahoma City

   At the missing man Keever's home the pair pick up a faint thread, a scrap of paper, and a name that points west.

3. 3
   Los Angeles

   A science journalist, Westwood, and a cryptic note about two hundred deaths set the investigation racing.

4. 4
   Chicago

   Following the trail to a vanished man's home, Reacher fends off the first of the hired killers.

5. 5
   Phoenix

   At the sister's house the assassins close in, all in the pay of a Ukrainian crime lord named Merchenko.

6. 6
   San Francisco

   A Deep Web coder unlocks the horror at the heart of it all, a mail-order death dressed up as mercy.

7. 7
   Mother's Rest

   Reacher, Chang and Westwood return to storm the remote farm and end the nightmare where it began.