« The Enemy » Lee Child

It’s New Year’s Eve 1990, the Soviet Union is about to collapse and the military is on tenterhooks, wondering how a changed globe will affect budgets and unit strengths, when the body of a two–star general is found in a motel near Fort Bird, N. C. Investigating is Reacher, 29, an MP major who’s just been transferred from Panama — one of dozens of top MPs swapped into new posts on the same day, he later learns. Missing from the general’s effects is a briefcase that, it’s also revealed later, contained an agenda for a secret meeting of army honchos connected to an armored division. Then the general’s wife is found bludgeoned to death at home and, soon after, a third body surfaces, of a slain gay Delta Force soldier whose murder contains clues pointing to Reacher as culprit. With Summer, a young black female lieutenant MP at his side (and, eventually, in his bed), Reacher digs deep, in his usual brilliant and violent way, butting against villainous superior officers, part of a grand conspiracy, as well as against members of Delta Force who think that Reacher killed their colleague.