If anyone can stop Kott, it’s the man who beat him before: Jack Reacher. And after fifteen years in prison, he’s out, unaccounted for, and likely drawing a bead on a G8 summit packed with enough world leaders to tempt any assassin. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? Very few, but John Kott, an American marksman gone bad, is one of them. The distance between the gunman and the target was exceptional. Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light. He must track down a killer with a treacherous vendetta. This new, heart-stopping, nail-biting book in Lee Child's addictive series takes Reacher across the Atlantic to Paris and then to London. And Reacher is the one man who can find him. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French President. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now is his own boss, going where the mood takes him. This time, for the State Department and the CIA. Not completely," notes Jack Reacher and, sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled back into service. "You can leave the army, but the army doesn’t leave you. The plot of this story may suggest a predictable read but as usual Child is the master of plot and this story is one that will capture your interest. Reacher adds, “But we’re all still KGB really. The do talk with some of their security counterparts and the see that they are all like the CIA, or the DGSE, or MI6 in Britain.
This pulls in security from around the world, but Casey Nice and Reacher just strike out on their own. The plot complicates itself, of course, when it seems clear that there are 4 possible snipers involved in the assassination plot and the world leaders are at risk in a coming summit in London. He is paired up with another officer named Casey Nice (“Nice by name, nice by nature”). It is an international assassination plot involving a sniper that Reacher had sent to prison over 16 years ago that beckons his service, but it does seem like a coincidence. The ad was simply 5 words center page in a boxed column printed in bold type: “Reacher call Rick Shoemaker.” The very senior Army officer who thought of this approach refers to him “Sherlock Homeless.” They find Reacher by running a small ad in the Army Times and he sees it and calls.
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