NEVER GO BACK by Lee Child

Finished Su 6/4/17  Borrowed from the library on Kindle. I think that I will always keep something 'lite' on the phone so that I can read while I'm working out. Next on the phone is a novel by James Lee Burke, and although Burke can write circles around Child, Child's plotlines never fail to be captivating and engaging. Jack Reacher is an iconic figure within this genre of literature.

This is the next in the series after A WANTED MAN

Reacher is charged with a murder that happened over twenty years ago and he is told that he fathered a daughter when he was stationed in Korea as a young soldier.

1) Reacher is charged with beating a Black drug dealer, and this man later died of his injuries. He left a deposition stating that Reacher did it. He didn't.

2) Reacher goes to LA and does meet a fourteen year old girl who may or may not be his kid. She has many characteristics that are unique to Reacher, but he never met the girl's mother, and this woman had never been to Korea.

He travels back to Virginia to meet a woman who he was attracted to. This woman is an officer and is doing his old job. She is under indictment and in jail for taking a $100,000 bribe.

They get together, go on the lamb, and clear themselves.

The evil plot is masterminded by an opium ring that caters to rich, old and powerful men in Washington, DC.

From the novel's page at wikipedia-


"Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South Dakota to his destination in northeastern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. The old stone building is the closest thing to a home he ever had.

Reacher is there to meet—in person—the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner, so far just a warm, intriguing voice on the phone.

But it isn’t Turner behind the CO’s desk. And Reacher is hit with two pieces of shocking news, one with serious criminal consequences, and one too personal to even think about.

When threatened, you can run or fight.

Reacher fights, aiming to find Turner and clear his name, barely a step ahead of the army, and the FBI, and the D.C. Metro police, and four unidentified thugs.

Combining an intricate puzzle of a plot and an exciting chase for truth and justice, Lee Child puts Reacher through his paces—and makes him question who he is, what he’s done, and the very future of his untethered life on the open road."