Past Tense

Jack Reacher hits the pavement and sticks out his thumb. He plans to follow the sun on an epic trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn’t get far. On a country road deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been: the town where his father was born. He thinks, What’s one extra day? He takes the detour. At the same moment, in the same isolated area, a car breaks down. Two young Canadians had been on their way to New York City to sell a treasure—a rare and almost priceless book manuscript written by Jack Reacher’s father. Now they stand to lose everything unless they can make it back to civilization before the last bus leaves town—with or without the manuscript.