Putnam, New York, 1999, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-399-14467-6.  Hard cover, 343 pages.  Good plus; black boards with red foil lettering on front and spine; boards have a few spots; edge, corner and spine end wear; binding sound with headbands.  Dust jacket with price intact has light edge and cover wear.  Interior clean and unmarked; straightened creases on rear end paper which had caused light impressions on last two pages; tiny soil spot on top page block.  ‘… Reacher’s lazy anonymity in Key West is shattered by a stranger who comes to town searching for him.  Hours after his arrival, the stranger turns up beaten to death in the Old Town cemetery, and Reacher is forced to follow the man’s cold trail back to New York to find the people who dispatched him in the first place: a bewildered and elderly couple still mourning an all-American son lost in Vietnam; an alluring and intelligent woman from Reacher’s own haunted past; and at the center of the web, the most vicious opponent Reacher has ever faced.’ (from front flap)