Jack Reacher always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, but then he's the man for the job. In Gone Tomorrow, Reacher witnesses a woman commit suicide on the subway in the middle of the night, and his curiosity about her won't let him leave it alone. He starts off as a key witness, as he was speaking with her just before she shot herself. But then he ends up investigating, and gets caught in the middle of a conspiracy of Pentagon secrets, the campaign of an up-and-coming senator, crazy Afghani terrorists, and police investigators trying to put the puzzle pieces together.
Puzzles are what Reacher is good at. He puts himself inside the heads of others around him, anticipating moves and using logic to figure things out. Gone Tomorrow is a solid Reacher story, where he uses knowledge from his military service and street smarts from the streets of New York to dig into some answers. Of course, he leaves quite a body count. The bad guys might have thought a crew of twenty would be sufficient, but they didn't count on meeting Jack Reacher.
Like all the Reacher novels, Gone Tomorrow works without the reader having read any prior novels. He starts as a drifter, ends as a drifter, with nothing but the clothes he's wearing, his passport, his ATM card, and his folding toothbrush. What more does he need?
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