The Enemy

They ship it wherever we go, in cans as big as oil drums.
    I never went back to Fort Bird. Never saw that sergeant again, the one with the baby son. I thought of her sometimes, when force reduction began to bite. I never saw Summer again either. I heard she talked up Kramer’s agenda so much that JAG Corps wanted the death penalty for treason, and then she finessed confessions out of Vassell and Coomer and Marshall on all the other stuff in exchange for life in prison. I heard she got promoted to captain the day after they went to Leavenworth. So she and I ended up on the same pay grade. We met in the middle. But our paths never crossed again.
    I never went back to Paris either. I meant to. I thought I might go climb down under the Pont des Invalides, late at night, and just sniff the air. But it never happened. I was in the army, and I was always where someone else told me to be.

About the Author
    The Enemy
is Lee Child’s eighth Jack Reacher thriller. The first seven have won numerous awards and all have been international bestsellers. Lee Child was born in England and was a television director before becoming a novelist in 1997. He lives just outside New York City, where he is currently at work on his ninth book,
One Shot.

    Visit the author’s website at www.LeeChild.com .

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THE ENEMY
A Delacorte Press Book / June 2004

    Published by Bantam Dell
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New York, New York

    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright © 2004 by Lee Child

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    Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Child, Lee.
The enemy : a Jack Reacher novel / Lee Child.
p. cm.
eISBN 0-440-33498-5
1. Reacher, Jack (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Generals—Crimes against—Fiction. 3. Americans—France—Fiction. 4. Military police—Fiction. 5. Conspiracies—Fiction. 6. France—Fiction. I. Title.

    PS3553.H4838E54 2004
813'.54—dc22
2003065282

    Published simultaneously in Canada

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