With his operation in tatters, Mark kills Steven, Peter, and Robert, and goes to kill the other surviving contestants. He returns just as the contest begins, and manages to kill two participants while Shorty and Patty set fire to the motel and kill two of their pursuers. Amos, Reacher is informed that Mark is a distant cousin of his, and when he and Burke go to the motel for a room, they are quickly turned away by Peter, which arouses Reacher's suspicions. Castle and Carrington also disappear, with seemingly no explanation why. Burke (who he saved earlier from being assaulted) learn that a professor at a nearby university, also named Reacher, wants to speak to him as he is the only living male descendant of his family line. After subduing the Boston hitmen set to capture him at a library and subduing the farmer and his workers in a fight, Reacher and his friend Rev. Meanwhile, Reacher is barred from returning to Laconia after getting in two separate fights, making him the target of both a corrupt local farmer and a crime syndicate based out of Boston. Through a combination of lies, gaslighting, and psychological manipulation, the owners trap Shorty and Patty in their room, thwarting their attempts to escape while preparing to welcome six guests, all of whom pay a large sum of money for what turns out to be a human bowhunting contest.
They take refuge at a local motel, operated by four men: Mark, Peter, Steven, and Robert. Expanding his search, Reacher discovers that his father grew up in Ryantown, an abandoned blue-collar community that once bordered a prosperous tin mill until he ran away at the age of seventeen to enlist in the Marines.Īt the same time, Shorty Fleck and Patty Sundstrom, two Canadian migrants looking to sell a trove of priceless comic books so they can use the money to settle in Florida, arrive in Laconia after their car breaks down. He meets Elizabeth Castle, the town clerk, and Carter Carrington, the town attorney, both of whom help him deduce that no one with the name Reacher ever lived in Laconia. While traveling to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Jack Reacher takes a detour to the town of Laconia, to visit his father Stan Reacher's childhood home. Delacorte Press initially released the book on 5 November 2018.
Past Tense is a novel by British writer Lee Child.This is the twenty-third book in the Jack Reacher series. Print (Hardcover, Paperback), Audio, eBook
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