Cameron Reacher walks the highways of America. Alone. An orphaned son turned transient. Searching for a mysterious drifter--his father. Some guy named Reacher.Like his father, Cameron faces a lot of bad luck and trouble--big trouble.The sins of the father are often transferred to the son. This is a lesson that Cameron will have to learn the hard way.Rainy Seattle weather forces Cameron indoors, where out of boredom he checks his old email account. Turns out that a Secret Service Agent named Sean Cord, an old friend of Joe, has been looking for Cameron. The agent makes it sound urgent.Cameron flies to DC and meets a young agent-in-training with a particular chip on her shoulder named Kelly Li.Cameron expected that he'd reunite with an old family friend at a new location with a good cup of coffee. What should've been a simple meeting turns into an international conspiracy when it is revealed to Cameron that they've got little time to save a kidnapped girl from an old enemy.Cameron and Li face off against a deadly enemy from Jack Reacher's past. An enemy with a score to settle.What this enemy didn't expect was that he messed with the wrong Reacher.