Just as carefully as you would mark the play card you knew for sure was going to win you a fortune. You go through it all in your head, very precisely and very exactly and very carefully. So you don't leave anything for them to find. You've seen them on duty, many times, sometimes close-up. You know more than most people about how the cops work. How do you make sure you get away with it? You use your knowledge. You know the big problems will come afterward. How could you, with your intelligence? After all your training? You have no problem with careful preparation. But that stuff is meat and potatoes to you. Because the perfect method is not an easy method, and careful preparation is very important. You think, and you think, and you think, and you come up with the perfect method. So you use what knowledge you've got, and you invent a new way. You would need to know ahead of time how to do it. Same for the Oscars, same for the Nobel prize, same for the first snowfall of winter. Football, hockey, next year's World Series, any kind of sports at all, if you could predict the future, you'd be home free. Same for basketball, same for the horses, whatever. Then later you'd sell, and you'd be rich. Suppose you had it? What would you do? You would call your broker.

You're not talking about a trend or a percentage game or a whisper or a tip. Suppose you really knew what was going to go way up? You're not talking about a hunch or a gut feeling. You would mark those numbers on the play card. Suppose you knew the winning numbers for the lottery? All of them? Not guessed them, not dreamed them, but really knew them? What would you do? You would run to the store. Since the serial killer is dead and Reacher promises to keep it a secret that an FBI agent was a serial killer, Reacher is finally free to live the life he wants as a wanderer.PEOPLE SAY THAT knowledge is power. The ultimate twist is at the end of the novel, when it turns out that hypnosis and one of its own is involved with the murders. While Reacher's original theory is just one to buy him some time, it turns out the killer and Reacher think quite alike.

Reacher even calls in favors from his Army contacts to try to help himself get free from the grips of the FBI. Twists and turns throughout the novel take the FBI agents and Reacher from one side of the country to the next. Her profile describes Jack Reacher to a 'T.' Hence the FBI bribes Reacher, for the safety of his girlfriend, to act as a consultant in helping them find the murderer. When former Army women start dying, the FBI brings in one of their top profilers, Julia Lamarr. The story follows Jack Reacher, a former member of the Army Military Police (MP), who finds himself embroiled in the middle of an FBI investigation. The Visitor is a novel by the best-selling author Lee Child.

Running Blind by Lee Child