Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient wakes to find two strangers by his bed.
They show him a list of names and ask a simple but impossible question. Minutes later he falls to his death from his twelfth-floor window – a fall which generates some unexpected attention.
That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher, recently demoted from Major, is assigned as the army’s representative. If he gets a result, great. If not, he’s a convenient fall guy.
Reacher may be an exceptional military investigator, but office politics aren’t what get him up in the morning. As he races to identify a cold-blooded killer and uncover a secret that stretches back twenty-three years, he must navigate around his new partners.
Will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way . . . or his way?
The Secret is the 28th in Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series.