Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, No. 5)

While hitchhiking through West Texas, former MP Jack Reacher encounters a young woman seeking protection for herself and her little girl from her monstrous husband, due to be released from jail, and his horrible family, but Reacher soon finds himself over his head among the simmering secrets of Echo, Texas. 60,000 first printing. BOMC, Lit Guild, Mystery Guild, & Doubleday.