Lee Child · 2008 · thriller

Lee Child's 2008 Jack Reacher thriller. Walking across Colorado, Reacher crosses from a town called Hope into its neighbour Despair - and is promptly run out by hostile locals. His stubbornness uncovers a company town built on a deadly secret, and a scheme with apocalyptic reach, in the empty country between the two.

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   Hope

   A friendly Colorado plains town where Reacher stops for coffee before strolling west toward its ominously named neighbor.

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   Despair

   A locked-down company town owned by a single zealot, where deputies bounce Reacher out on sight and a deadly secret festers behind the metal-recycling plant.