Jack Reacher has no place to go & all the time in the world to get there so a remote railroad stop on the prairie with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover He expects to find a lonely pioneer tombstone in a sea of nearly-ripe wheat but instead there is a woman waiting for a missing colleague a cryptic note about two hundred deaths & a small town full of silent watchful people Reacher's one-day stopover turns into an open-ended quest leading to the most hidden reaches of the internet & right into the nightmare heart of darkness Child's best for some timewith detective-story & romcom elements (even sly humour) on top of the psychological duels & set-piece violence' Sunday Times