The Affair by Lee Child

The Affair by Lee ChildMarch 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover. The county sheriff is a former US Marine and a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Is the Pentagon stonewalling her? Or doesn't she really want to find the killer?

he argues for a new way of looking at your “to-do” list

the individual novels are concerned with exploring various forms of desire

as a consequence of the patient's "morality

if good treatment is found early enough

In a time of colonial upheaval

and convey all the tensions and contradictions of colonial life

Thirteen-year-old Anna

He doesn't know what happened to her-only that her books have been banned-and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him

including the delightfully tongue-in-cheek ‘The Maharani of Chootiapuram’

Interleaving ten completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere

are still trying hard to resolve vital conflicting issues through dialogue

but she must win quickly