Lee Child · 2003 · thriller

Lee Child's 2003 Jack Reacher thriller. Staging a kidnap rescue to go undercover, Reacher penetrates the coastal Maine compound of an importer with dark cargo, from Boston up to a fortified house near Portland. Inside, a buried grudge from his army past resurfaces - the one man he thought he'd killed - as the operation edges toward a violent reckoning.

1. 1
   Boston

   Reacher fakes the roadside snatch of Beck's college-age son, shooting a bodyguard and a cop with blanks to plant himself as the boy's rescuer.

2. 2
   Portland

   DEA agent Susan Duffy runs the off-the-books operation from Maine, feeding Reacher into the smuggler's world.

3. 3
   Beck's Compound

   A granite mansion on a wind-lashed Maine peninsula, ringed by guards and razor wire, where Reacher hunts the ghost of Francis Xavier Quinn.