Personal by Lee Child (2014) Delacorte Press

The Army Times is an excellent way for veterans to keep up with what’s going on in the service.  It’s also an excellent way to get in contact with Reacher.  That’s how an old General who won’t retire gets Reacher to call his office.  Reacher owes his primary assistant, also a General now, and makes a call.   Even though he’s on the west coast, all the contact needs to do in confirm the location of the rare pay phone that Reacher is calling from and they can pick him up, which they do.  A quick trip to a local airbase and Reacher is on his way back to the east coast, but not to Washington, to Fort Bragg.

A sniper Reacher put away sixteen years ago has been released from prison and while there, he spent his time doing yoga and keeping in shape.  Now, there’s been an attempt on the French President by a world class sniper and the only thing that saved his life was bullet-proof glass.  No one knows which of the only four snipers in the world who could have made the shot did the shooting.  One of them is Reacher’s arrestee.  Reacher found him once, the General thinks he can do it again.  Only he has an unwanted partner, a CIA operative with no field experience that reminds him of the woman he allowed to go to make as arrest who was killed by the target.

The G8 is meeting in London, making a target of eight world leaders in just a few days.  Reacher must eliminate the threat of it being the American sniper who pulls the trigger.