New Year’s Eve of 1990. A heart attack kills a U.S. Army general. Nothing unusual, it seems—yet the circumstances of his death raise many questions. A high-ranking officer is found naked in a shabby motel room, and the on-duty military police officer, Jack Reacher, has to go to the call. He discovers that a general’s briefcase was stolen from the room—supposedly containing ultra-secret papers. And soon afterward, he finds the body of the general’s widow, murdered in her own home that same night. The “cleanup” continues: two special forces soldiers are destroyed one after another. Changes happen in top command. And someone inside the huge American military bastion wants to frame Jack Reacher—an untouchable investigator from a special department—as a scapegoat for those who are used to killing…