![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Reacher noses about the Beck’s latter-day Eagle’s Nest, whose depraved and degraded inhabitants have a Hitchcock flavor. Quinn’s background ensues, becoming-for once!-a subplot that ratchets up suspense. They also suspect that Beck’s father, a rug dealer, traffics in clandestine matters that tie him to Francis Xavier Quinn, who should have died ten years previously, when Reacher pushed him from a cliff. Then comes surprise #1: the ambush was meticulously staged by federal agents who want to plant Reacher inside the Beck fortress, where they want Reacher to rescue another agent who went missing in the same place a few weeks earlier. The law never forgives cop killers, Reacher tells Beck, so off they flee to the student’s Maine family mansion. Reacher, standing nearby, jumps into the fray, blows away the would-be abductors as well as a third man rushing onto the scene, who turns out to have been a plainclothes cop. As college student Richard Beck heads home, two men in a pickup cut off his limo, pull him out, and lob a grenade into the car, killing Beck’s bodyguards. ![]() ![]() Surprise tops nasty surprise when former MP Jack Reacher stalks a nemesis from the past.Ĭhild ( Without Fail, 2002) opens Reacher’s seventh case with an apparent ambush. ![]()
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