Persuader(2003)

Lee Child

Jack Reacher, the ultimate loner. Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. But he has a burning desire to right wrongs, and rewrite his own agonizing past. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he's moved from place to place, …without family, …without possessions, …without commitments. And without fear. Which is good, because trouble, big, violent, complicated trouble, finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not once, not ever.

Never forgive, never forget. Never apologize. Never explain. That's Jack Reacher's standard operating procedure. And Francis Xavier Quinn was the worst guy he had ever met. He had done truly unforgivable things. When Reacher witnesses a brutal attempt to kidnap a terrified young student on a New England campus, he takes the law into his own hands. That's his way, after all. Only this time, a cop dies, and Reacher doesn't stick around to explain. Has he lost his sense of right and wrong? Just because this time, it's personal. So Reacher was glad to know Quinn was dead. Until the day he saw him, alive and well, riding in a limousine outside Boston's Symphony Hall.

So, some unfinished business has now found Reacher. And Reacher is a man who hates unfinished business. Ten years ago, a key investigation went sour and someone got away with murder. Now a chance encounter brings it all back. Now Reacher sees his one last shot. Some would call it vengeance. Some would call it redemption. Reacher would call it...justice.