Now a wanted criminal, James meets up with a military cop, Jack Reacher, who sympathises with him and helps him out of his predicament.

A massive fire across a US Naval Station in Cuba originates from a plane crash believed to contain a large quantity of napalm.

In Miami, Florida, the FBI receives an anonymous tip that a man named Jack Swyteck, a defense lawyer, is in danger.

Police sniper Byron Stone watches through a rifle's scope, a man in an apartment terrorizes a mother and her two children.

He fears missing his target, granting the hostage-taker a final opportunity to complete his dirty work.

A paid killer, Phin, is hired by a Chinese man named Ti to avenge his daughter, Sunny Lung, who was killed by a gang known as the 'Kings'.

Keith enters the elderly woman's home, only to find that she is unconscious inside the trunk of her car.

Keith arrives at the house and whilst searching for the youth, bumps into the man who was hit by a frying pan.

The author is very moved, because he feels responsible for his younger brother's suicide, because the narrator had not said anything about the pedophile priest who, it is implied, abused both of them.

Seaman Joe Kowalski swims onto a small island after his boat is accidentally blown up by a gas leak.

He is met by Dr. Shay Rosauro, who informs him that the island is infected with a transgenic rhabdovirus and is scheduled to be bombed by the Brazilian Navy at 0900 hours—in less than half an hour.

Masquerading as "Arkady Albam", Olenkov befriends Sansborough, lures her to his apartment, and tells her a false story of how he got shot.

After witnessing Audra being verbally abused and then raped by her husband, Alec, Maura searches the house without success.

The dynamite is then revealed to be a fake, then the detonator triggers explosives on both sides of Habib's vehicle, killing him.

After two months of therapy, she realizes that her loss of emotion originated with the disappearance of her childhood hero, Frank Millay.

Weaver and his friend, Thomas Lane, are attacked by Fisher and his crime partner, Ruddy Dick.

Jacobs reveals he faked the robbery scene with his crime partner, knocking the maid out and stealing the money.