Lee Child · 2006 · thriller

Lee Child's 2006 Jack Reacher thriller. Sipping coffee in a New York café, Reacher witnesses a kidnap ransom drop and is hired by a shadowy ex-mercenary to find the missing wife and child. The hunt carries him from Manhattan across the Atlantic to a lonely farm in the English county of Norfolk, where the truth proves darker than a simple abduction.

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   New York

   Reacher watches a man collect a car in a ransom drop and is hired by Edward Lane, whose wife and stepdaughter have supposedly been abducted.

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   London

   The investigation turns up Lane's dark history as a mercenary and sends Reacher across the Atlantic to England.

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   Norfolk

   At a lonely farm in Norfolk the truth about Lane, his first wife, and an African massacre is at last unearthed.