What better way to test the security surrounding a U. S. vice president-elect than to hire someone skilled in the killing arts to penetrate his protection?
Assassination strategy, though, is only part of the assignment facing Jack Reacher. This restive, blunt-edged ex-military cop must also determine whether recent threats against VP-to-be Senator Brook Armstrong are legitimate or are primarily intended to embarrass the perfectionist head of Armstrong's new Secret Service detail, M. E. Froelich, who happens to have been a girlfriend of Reacher's late brother.