Personal characters

Also known as Reacher

Appears from the start

An itinerant former Army major who recognizes an indirect summons from his former superior, Tom O'Day, and accepts discreet transportation to an undisclosed destination.

Also known as General O'Day, O'Day

Appears from the start

A general and former superior of Jack Reacher who uses Rick Shoemaker to summon him.

Also known as Shoemaker

Appears from the start

A brigadier general who relays Tom O'Day's summons to Jack Reacher and arranges his discreet transportation to an undisclosed destination.

Also known as Nice

First appears in chapter 2

A young State Department officer based at Fort Bragg who receives Reacher at Pope Field. She introduces the known details of the extraordinary long-range shot in Paris and prepares him for the classified briefing.

Also known as Kott

First appears in chapter 3

A missing former elite Army sniper whom Reacher investigated for murdering a Ranger sixteen years earlier. Recently released after a fifteen-year sentence, Kott is the American among four marksmen considered capable of the Paris shot.

Also known as Scarangelo

First appears in chapter 5

A senior CIA officer who joins the inquiry and explains the international consequences of a successful attack on several heads of state. Her prior work with Reacher's late brother Joe gives her a personal point of connection with him.

Also known as Carson

First appears in chapter 6

A former SAS sniper identified as one of four possible perpetrators of the Paris attack. His record includes an exceptional long-range kill, placing him among the few marksmen considered capable of the shot.

Also known as Datsev

First appears in chapter 6

A former Russian military sniper and one of the four candidates under international scrutiny after the Paris attack. Trained by a veteran of Stalingrad, he has the specialized skill required for an exceptionally difficult long-range shot.

First appears in chapter 6

A retired Israeli elite sniper considered among the four candidates capable of the Paris shot. Rosan is exceptionally skilled with a .50-caliber Barrett rifle.

Also known as Kohl

First appears in chapter 11

A former subordinate of Reacher who was killed after he sent her to arrest members of a criminal gang.

Also known as Khenkin

First appears in chapter 12

A French ballistics investigator examining the Paris firing position. He recognizes that the first round was deliberately placed to damage the president's protective glass, then is killed by a distant rifle shot before he can carry the finding further.

First appears in chapter 13

Jack Reacher's French mother, who died of lung cancer in 1990. As a child during World War II, she worked for the French Resistance by escorting Allied airmen through Paris.

Also known as Mr. Bennett

First appears in chapter 12

A British intelligence officer present with Reacher at the Paris firing site. When a sniper kills Yevgeniy Khenkin, Bennett immediately leaves the exposed balcony and avoids being recorded, demonstrating alertness to both physical danger and official scrutiny.

Also known as Libor

First appears in chapter 16

An Albanian gang leader involved in London's drug, weapons, and trafficking trades. He is killed by a .50-caliber shot from long range, apparently as part of an arrangement between the marksmen and a local criminal organization.

First appears in chapter 17

A figure identified among the Romford Boys leadership as Reacher's team investigates the east London organization suspected of supporting the wanted marksmen.

First appears in chapter 17

A figure identified among the Romford Boys leadership as Reacher's team investigates the criminal network believed to be protecting the wanted marksmen.

First appears in chapter 17

A figure identified among the Romford Boys leadership as Reacher's team investigates the east London organization supporting the wanted marksmen.

First appears in chapter 17

A figure identified among the Romford Boys leadership as Reacher's team investigates the east London organization supporting the wanted marksmen.

Also known as White

First appears in chapter 23

The seventy-seven-year-old boss of the Romford Boys, identified when intelligence details the east London gang's executive leadership.

Also known as Green, Little Joey

First appears in chapter 23

The Romford Boys enforcer and a member of Charlie White's executive council. He is identified as the giant who recovered the gang's injured attacker.

Also known as Miller

First appears in chapter 23

A member of Charlie White's executive council within the Romford Boys leadership.

Also known as Thompson

First appears in chapter 23

A member of Charlie White's executive council within the Romford Boys leadership.

First appears in chapter 25

The apparent leader of a garage crew that confines Jack Reacher and Casey Nice after they arrive to buy weapons.

First appears in chapter 42

The leader of John Kott's security detail. Joseph Green arranges a delayed check-in with him, with instructions for the detail to leave the house if Green does not answer.

First appears in chapter 44

A woman heard inside the bedroom where John Kott is barricaded in Joseph Green's house. Her identity, condition, and relationship to Kott are not yet clear when Reacher first detects her presence during his search of the building.