The Enemy (Jack Reacher Book 8, 2009)

now, Reacher just hurt the man with the face, badly, over the knee joint, and Summer just told him, that the boy from the motel said he heard a Humvee leaving in a hurry, before he went to check the room, and found the dead two-star Kramer, a while later, Reacher called Joe, and the two brothers are flying to Paris, to see their mother, before she died, now, all these, started from that New Year's Eve, after the Wall came down, during the flight to Paris, Joe kept reminding Reacher that he should find out why he was at Bird, "my boys," she said. "just look at the two of you." "you don't need me anymore," she told us. "you're all grown up. my job is done. that's natural, and that's good. that's life. so let me go."