Echo Burning - Lee Child

Complete with crackling fast dialogue, an edgy ambivalent plot, and the capacity to make his readers turn the page, this feels like Child's breakthrough book into the mega-sellers. He is that good. (Daily Mail) n n Jack Reacher, adrift in the hellish heat of a Texas summer. n n Looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A woman stops, and offers a ride. She is young, rich and beautiful. n n But her husband's in jail. When he comes out, he's going to kill her. n n Her family's hostile, she can't trust the cops, and the lawyers won't help. She is entangled in a web of lies and prejudice, hatred and murder. n n Jack Reacher never could resist a lady in distress. n n Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Echo Burning is 5th in the series. n