reacher, jack (fictitious character)

Jack Reacher, an ex-military policeman, is passing through the town of Margarve, Georgia, when he is accused of murder, and must somehow find the real killer and prove his innocence--with virtually the whole town against him.

When former military cop Jack Reacher travels to northeastern Virginia to meet up with Major Susan Turner, he is hit with shocking news that sends him on a chase for truth and justice.

Hitching a ride to Virginia in a car with three strangers, Jack Reacher finds himself unwittingly involved in a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat.

The murder of a stranger only hours after he arrived in Key West looking for Jack Reacher sets the ex-military policeman on a collision course with an enemy from his past.

"Why is this town called Mother's Rest?- That's all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It's a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal. ... Walking away would have been easier. But as always, Reacher's rule is: If you want me to stop, you're going to have to make me"--Amazon.com.

"Someone has tried to kill the French president. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? John Kott -- a U.S. Army marksman gone bad -- is one of them. After fifteen years in prison, he's out and there's a G8 summit coming up, packed with enough world leaders to tempt any assassin. If anyone can stop Kott, it's the man who beat him before: Jack Reacher. And though he'd rather work alone, Reacher is teamed with rookie analyst Casey Nice. They're facing a rough road, full of local thugs, double-crosses, and no backup if things go wrong. Reacher never gets too close. But this time it's personal."--from back cover.

Ex-army cop Jack Reacher is called upon by Jack Barr, an ex-military specialist arrested for the gunning down five innocent people from thirty yards away, but Barr's claims's of innocence reveal a complex and difficult case.

The murder of a stranger only hours after he arrived in Key West looking for Jack Reacher sets the ex-military policeman on a collision course with an enemy from his past.

Jack Reacher proves the truth of the old adage about the dangers of a man with nothing to lose when he walks the twelve miles between the towns of Hope and Despair looking for a cup of coffee only to encounter hostility, a vagrancy charge, and an order to move on.