In 1996, Jack Reacher was still serving in the military police as a major, solving one crime after another and receiving well-deserved awards. Suddenly he was told that he was being sent… to a night school for advanced training. Astonished, Reacher arrived at his new place of service. It turned out that the school and the training were just a cover—“a smokescreen.” In reality, he and several top specialists from the FBI and CIA had to carry out an assignment of the highest importance. Intelligence agencies had information that a certain American living in Hamburg, Germany, was supposed to receive one hundred million dollars from Afghan terrorists. For what are they paying him such unreal money? What is he selling? And how can he be found? Jack Reacher won’t leave “night school” until he answers all those questions…