Gone Tomorrow

Two in the morning, New York City, and Jack Reacher is riding a subway car uptown with five other passengers. Four of them behave normally. The fifth, Susan Mark, does not, and Reacher is not a man who looks away.

Susan Mark kept a secret, though her ordinary life gave little sign of it. People in Washington, California and Afghanistan have been watching her, dozens of them, and every one is lying to Reacher to some degree. Some lie a little, some a great deal, and some just enough to get him killed.

The action moves through the streets of Manhattan, which turn into a maze packed with skilled, violent soldiers on every side of a shadow war. Reacher trusts nobody and prefers it that way, so he works through the lies alone.

The book reads as a thriller that begins on a single subway ride and widens into a chase across the city. It ends only when Reacher comes face to face with his worst enemy.