Better Off Dead: (Jack Reacher 26)

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Croselli had slapped Hemingway for wearing a wire tape, and from this he deduced that Hemingway was an FBI agent. However, at her remote ranch in Echo County Reacher encounters lies, prejudice and hatred climaxing in Carmen being arrested for the murder of her husband. The assignment that awaits him: the army is meeting with its Capitol Hill paymasters for classified talks on a new, state-of-the-art sniper rifle for US forces. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun—until he comes upon a curious scene.

Two women are found dead in their own homes—in baths filled with Army-issue camouflage paint, their bodies completely unmarked.Much to his surprise, shortly after his arrival, he is arrested in a local diner for murder, simply for being a random transient.

This work is a crossover between the Jack Reacher and Nick Heller series, the latter with Joseph Finder. If the Tom Cruise movies have piqued your curiosity about this long-running series, this is a perfect place to dive in.It was announced in September 2014 that Tom Cruise would reprise the role in the sequel Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, which would adapt the 18th novel, Never Go Back. I have read all of the Jack Reacher books; some are average, most are good, a few are outstanding…but the latest book was very poor.