Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher)

Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It's not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child€s electrifying new novel, Reacher€"a man with no fear, no illusions, and nothing to lose€"goes to war against a town that not only wants him gone, it wants him dead.

It wasn€t the welcome Reacher expected. He was just passing through, minding his own business. But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope, setting up a base of operations against Despair, where a huge, seething walled-off industrial site does something nobody is supposed to see . . . where a small plane takes off every night and returns seven hours later . . . where a garrison of well-trained and well-armed military cops€"the kind of soldiers Reacher once commanded€"waits and watches . . . where above all two young men have disappeared and two frightened young women wait and hope for their return.

Joining forces with a beautiful cop who runs Hope with a cool hand, Reacher goes up against Despair€"against the deputies who try to break him and the rich man who tries to scare him€"and starts to crack open the secrets, starts to expose the terrifying connection to a distant war that€s killing Americans by the thousand.

Now, between a town and the man who owns it, between Reacher and his conscience, something has to give. And Reacher never gives an inch.