Once there Jack targets a random pair of criminals collecting protection money and deliberately instigates a turf war between rival racketeers. Reacher and Harper head up to New Jersey, but while Harper remains outside the colonel's office due to security clearance reasons, the colonel helps Reacher sneak out the window and arranges a four-hour trip to New York. Reacher suggests contacting Colonel John Trent at Fort Dix to inquire about special forces soldiers and the three week rotation (another of Lamarr's misdirects of the investigation). The team holds several meetings at Quantico, and Reacher meets agent Lisa Harper, the woman who has to accompany Reacher wherever he goes. Lamarr also reveals the killer's M.O., which is killing the victims in an unknown way, with no bruises or injuries, leaving them naked in their bathtub, filled with army-issue camouflage paint. Lamarr's stepsister, it so happens, is a woman with the same particulars as the three already killed. Reacher and Special Agent Lamarr, the lead profiler on the team, drive from New York to the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, whilst discussing information on the case. The FBI compels him to assist with the investigation by threatening to hurt him and, possibly, Jodie too. A third woman has been killed who was also an ex-soldier who filed for sexual harassment вЂ“ albeit in a different timeframe from the first two. He is soon called upon by two members of the FBI team that previously questioned him. Jodie returns to work, and Reacher drives to his house in upstate New York that he inherited from Leon Garber. Reacher's lawyer girlfriend Jodie arrives, and he is released after further questioning. Reacher realizes that he has no alibi for the places and times that the women were killed, and he requests a lawyer. It is revealed they have both been killed in the last few months and a criminal profiling team has come to the conclusion that the person responsible was someone exactly like Reacher. He is then questioned about two women whose cases of sexual harassment he dealt with when he was an MP. Reacher is picked up by the FBI and questioned but explains he's been a loner since he mustered out of the army. In New York City, Reacher confronts and beats up two thugs sent to collect protection racket money from the new restaurant in which he has just finished dinners, and deliberately implies to the thugs that he is a member of a rival crime organisation. Any kind of sports at all, if you could predict the future, you'd be home and dry. Then later you'd sell, and you'd be rich. You're not talking about a trend or a percentage game or a whisper or a tip. Suppose you knew the winning numbers for the lottery? You would run to the store. The prologue opens with a mystery person's point of view on knowledge, power and killing, 'People say that knowledge is power.

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