Dick Traverse, a forty-five-year-old, ex-punk whose become a concert organizer, has been accompanying underground rock groups for years during improbable tours as flat broke as they are chaotic. Worn out and wrung out by a sterile existence, his fate radically changes the moment the van he's driving for a Norwegian black metal group enters the legendary Brocéliande forest.
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki.
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Years after resigning command of an elite military police unit, the nomadic, righter-of-wrongs Reacher is drawn back into the life he left behind when his friend and successor, Major Susan Turner is framed for espionage.
