Diana Dawkins…A lead operative with the ultra-clandestine federal agency called The Circle. Smart, beautiful, deadly.Sent to Cordial, Kentucky to verify the identity of a murder victim.Sent to verify that the victim is Jack Reacher.Cordial is certainly Reacher’s kind of town, but Diana knows right away that the dead man in the crime scene photographs is someone else. Who is he? Why was he killed? Does the suspect in custody know more than she’s willing to say?As Diana delves deeper into the investigation, it soon becomes clear that—despite its name—Cordial is not a very welcoming place.In fact, it’s downright deadly.