About the book: year / July 1977. Jack Reacher is almost seventeen, and he stops in New York on his way from South Korea to visit his brother at West Point. The summer heat is stifling, fires are raging in the Bronx, the city is bankrupt, and a crazed gunman known as the Son of Sam is still at large. Reacher meets a woman in trouble and agrees to help her. This short story was published on August 6, 2013 as an e-book.