Everything starts somewhere. . . .For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup.
A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington.
Reacher is ordered undercover—to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish. Reacher is a good soldier. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, he finds layers no one saw coming, and the investigation spins out of control.
Local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux has a thirst for justice—and an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust one another, Reacher and Deveraux reluctantly join forces. Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission, and turn him into a man to be feared.
A novel of unrelenting suspense that could only come from the pen of #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, The Affair is the start of the Reacher saga, a thriller that takes Reacher—and his readers—right to the edge . . . and beyond.
My thoughts
I have enjoyed the Reacher novels when I first stumbled across them in the library. Wasn’t sure if I was going to like this one since it didn’t deal with the present, but the past. It turned out to be one of the better ones in the series.
It is 1997 and Reacher is ordered to undercover to investigate a murder that may have been committed by a military man and the powers that be don’t want it to blow up in their face. When Reacher goes down to Carter Crossing, Mississippi he is quickly uncovered and but still does his own investigating. What he finds is a lot more than anyone suspected. We also learn the reason why Reacher left the Army.
Disclosure: I borrowed this book from my local library.
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