A typical Jack Reacher, a good story to begin the novel, as Jack gets picked up as he hitch hikes through Missouri. Of course, the two guys he picks up have just committed a murder in an out of the way bunker. There is a woman sitting in the backseat of the car and as they drive north, Jack realizes that she has been kidnapped by the two drivers. Jack, of course, figures this out and at a rest stop, Jack's smart enough to know they will kill him, so he out smarts the killer and escapes. Then things begin to unravel as he teams up with a woman FBI agent who goes rogue, at Jack's urgings. This is when the book gets a bit silly and confusing. We find out that one of the two kidnappers is an undercover agent and missed Jack on purpose. The women is an agent as well. What a coincidence. The women ends up with Jack and the FBI agent in a safe house, to keep them from spilling the beans on the CIA. They out via a cell phone that one of the kidnappers, the good guy, has been taken hostage and break out of the safe house. They drive to an out of the way bunker, used for missile storage in the 1950's. They realize that there are 15 individuals guarding the silo. Not too many for Jack though and I won't go any farther than to say that Jack wins, the fifteen lose. We are still not clear what's been going on, even at the end, other than the fact that the bad guys were Syrians intent on doing damage to the US water supply, I think. Not my favorite after the first half, which I found riveting.
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