Lee Child · 1999 · thriller

Lee Child's 1999 Jack Reacher thriller. Digging swimming pools in Key West, Reacher learns a private eye has been searching for him - and turned up dead. The trail pulls him to New York and a leafy town upstate, into a decades-old Vietnam-era secret and the orbit of a sadistic financier, as an old army loose end and a debt of honour come due.

1. 1
   Key West

   Reacher has drifted to the end of the road in the Keys when a New York detective comes asking for him and is killed for it.

2. 2
   New York

   He heads north to trace the dead man's client, and finds Jodie, the daughter of his old mentor, and the vicious loan shark Hook Hobie.

3. 3
   Garrison

   Up the Hudson at Leon Garber's house the threads of an old MIA mystery and Hobie's schemes finally come together.