You`re in the army now, New Year`s Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The Cold War is ending. Soon America won`t have any enemies left. The army won`t have anybody to fight. Things are going to change. Jack Reacher is the Military Police duty officer on a base in North Carolina when he takes a call reporting a dead soldier in a hot-sheets motel. Reacher tells the local cops to handle it - heart attacks happen all the time I don`t know but I`ve been But why is Reacher in North Carolina, instead of Panama, where the action is? Then the dead man turns out to have been a two-star general who should have been in Europe. And when Reacher goes to the general`s house to break the news, he finds another corpse: the general`s wife. What is he dealing with here? The last echoes of the old the first shocks of the new? Lee Child`s new stomach-churning, palm-sweating thriller turns back the clock to Jack Reacher`s army days. For the first time we meet a younger Reacher, a Reacher not yet disillusioned with military life. A Reacher with family. A Reacher in dogtags and starched uniform who imposes army discipline, if only in his own pragmatic way. A Reacher as far from the no-credit card, no-last-known-address drifter of the previous eight novels as is possible to imagine