However, his real objective is to seize control of their assets, using torture and violence to force his clients to agree to his terms. Under his new identity, Allen amasses a fortune as a "moneylender", before establishing himself as a legitimate businessman who offers assistance to financially troubled firms unable to get loans. Severely burned by the crash, he left his own tags behind to fool investigators and had his right hand, lost in the helicopter crash, replaced with a hook. However, it becomes clear that Hobie died in the crash, and that another soldier named Carl Allen assumed his identity in order to escape prosecution for fragging a superior officer. They then learn that Hobie served in the war as a helicopter pilot until he was shot down. Louis, which leads them to the military Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, a special facility that identifies the forensic remains of soldiers. After forcing Rutter to return the money he stole, Reacher and Jodie visit the National Personnel Records Center in St. "Hook" Hobie becomes aware of their investigation, and tries to hunt them down. They discover that the Hobies had been tricked into giving their life savings to a con man and gun runner named Rutter, who poses as a fake military liaison to families of MIA soldiers. Hobie on the whereabouts of their son Victor, reported missing-in-action years ago in Vietnam. Reacher and Jodie follow Costello's trail, uncovering information on her father's last project, an investigation for the elderly Mr. His daughter, Jodie Garber-Jacob, turns out to be the mystery client. Jacob and arrives in the middle of a funeral for his old mentor and friend, Col. Jacob to find out why Costello was looking for him and why he was killed for it.Īfter finding Costello's office ransacked, Reacher gets the contact information for Mrs. Jack then flies to New York in search of Mrs. Reacher attempts to follow them but instead finds Costello murdered on the sidewalk. Later on, while Reacher is working his night job as a bouncer in a strip club, two very suspicious-looking men also make inquiries about his location.
Jacob, a name Reacher does not recognise. The story then begins with Jack Reacher working two jobs in Key West and bumping into a private investigator, Costello, who happens to be looking for him on behalf of a client named Mrs.
More than thirty years of quiet success has made him feel somewhat secure, but he did not expect both alerts to arrive on the same day. His response to their activation would be to tie up loose ends, cash in, transfer his assets, and flee the country. The first is eleven thousand miles from home and the second is six thousand miles out. His "early-warning system" consists of geographically-located "tripwires". The prologue describes Victor Truman "Hook" Hobie's carefully planned escape route in the event of somebody discovering his "really big, well-guarded secret". Following the man’s trail back to New York, he finds a bewildered, elderly couple still mourning an all-American son lost in Vietnam, a woman Reacher couldn’t forget, and a most vicious opponent. Each of Child's novels follows the adventures of a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher, who wanders the United States.Reacher’s lazy anonymity in Key West is shattered by a stranger who comes to town searching for him but ends up dead. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel. Jim Grant (born 29 October 1954), better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer. Bibliography » Make Me (Jack Reacher #20) » Small Wars (Jack Reacher #19.5) » Personal (Jack Reacher #19) » Not a Drill (Jack Reacher #18.5) » Never Go Back (Jack Reacher #18) » High Heat (Jack Reacher #17.5) » A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher #17) » Deep Down (Jack Reacher #16.5) » The Affair (Jack Reacher #16) » Second Son (Jack Reacher #15.5) » Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher #15) » 61 Hours (Jack Reacher #14) » Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher #13) » Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher #12) » Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher #11) » The Hard Way (Jack Reacher #10) » One Shot (Jack Reacher #9) » The Enemy (Jack Reacher #8) » Persuader (Jack Reacher #7) » Without Fail (Jack Reacher #6) » Echo Burning (Jack Reacher #5) » Running Blind (Jack Reacher #4) » Tripwire (Jack Reacher #3) » Die Trying (Jack Reacher #2) » Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1)
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