In 1996, Jack Reacher was still serving in the military police with the rank of major, solving one crime after another and receiving well-deserved awards. Suddenly he was informed that he was heading... to evening school to improve his qualifications. Extremely surprised, Reacher arrived at his new duty station. It turned out that school and training are just a screen, a “smoke screen.” In fact, he and several other cool specialists from the FBI and CIA must complete a task of the highest importance. Intelligence services received information that an American living in Hamburg, Germany, was to receive one hundred million dollars from Afghan terrorists. Why are they paying him such unreal money? What is he selling? And how to find it? Jack Reacher won't leave night school until he answers all these questions...