Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child

Paperback 2009. 543 pages.
South Amboy, NJ

I read this book while I was in Hong Kong and enjoyed it. Evidently Child has written a series of crime novels based on the character Jack Reacher, and this is one of them.

Both a politician (John Sansom) and a group from Afghanistan (represented by a team headed by two women) attempt to obtain information about Sansom when he visited the country. The reason why Sansom wanted the comprising information is clear enough, but we do not get a satisfactory explanation on the motivation of the other team.

Reacher's involvement started when he witnessed the suicide of Susan Mark who stole the information from government archives because her son was kidnapped and held hostage. He got the help of a couple of detectives and Susan's brother Jacob Mark but had everything else stacked against him.

The story is mostly believable (if you call one against twenty or so - and coming out on top - believable) and the plot moves along nicely.

One of the better novels in this genre I have read.