Three guys approach a dentist in his office parking lot in a Chicago suburb and order him into the trunk of his Lexus. Jack Reacher and an unknown lady are kidnapped in broad daylight on a downtown sidewalk by two experienced and confident guys who stop them at gunpoint and force them into the same automobile. The dentist is then chained and gagged inside his car with the lady's abandoned goods, two gallons of gasoline, and a burning match, while Reacher and the woman are loaded into a second vehicle and driven away. Because the FBI always takes care of its own, and because this lady is not just another agent, the FBI is frantic to save the woman, a Special Agent from the Chicago office. Reacher and the lady join forces to outsmart their captors and escape, despite seemingly impossible odds. The FBI, on the other hand, believes Jack is one of the kidnappers, and when they close in, snipers from the Bureau will be shooting to kill.
I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past.
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