A Wanted Man is the seventeenth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child.

[3] The book returns to the present timeline, continuing where Worth Dying For left off, whereas the preceding novel, The Affair, told some episode of the main character's past.

They pass two roadblocks where the highway police are searching for one or two males in dark suits who killed a man and took off in a Mazda.

Sorenson and Goodman's theory is proven correct after they visit a gas station and examine the security camera footage facing across the street.

The other fugitive, McQueen, is also an undercover special agent with the FBI who tried to infiltrate a terrorist group called Wadia which has threatened to pollute a huge drinking water aquifer with nuclear waste.

Reacher, Lucy, Sorenson, Karen and the eyewitness from the beginning of the novel have all ended locked up in some sort of witness-protection compound.

They are eventually able to locate the terrorists' hiding place, a huge ex-army missile storage bunker, but Sorenson is killed by a sniper.

Reacher plays along and soon manages to kill Peter, but the thin cord binding McQueen takes time to saw through with a key and the remaining members of the group are all about to attack.

In reality, there only existed some empty trailers from the time of the cold war that had been forgotten in the bunker, but had never been used for nuclear material.

The following novel is Never Go Back and is a sequel, not prequel, to Worth Dying For and A Wanted Man in the series continuity, unlike The Affair.

Many enjoyed the book, but thought its ending was too detailed and disagreed with its criticism of the United States' comprehensive security response to 9/11.

She calls Sorenson one of the best female characters in the whole Reacher series and also that the villains are more ingenious than previous books.