title: Jack Kramer's Journey
author: Frank Adkins
description: Jack Kramer is forty, divorced, and has been sober for nearly a year. Wrought with guilt for the breakup of his family, Jack cannot yet face his sons. Still on shaky ground, for the last several months he has concerned himself with reviving the 1970 Plymouth Road Runner he drove in his youth. When his high school girlfriend Kim Hurley returns to their hometown of Colorado Springs, Jack gets a second chance with the love that should have been. As their relationship flourishes, Jack grows stronger and learns to reach out to his sons. But when Kim returns to her home in Maine and breaks off contact with him, Jacks newfound strength is put to the test. Unable to bear losing her again, he is forced to confront his fears. He must go to Maine and find the answers that await him.
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  **Contents**
  
   _ _Title Page__
  
   _ _Dedication__
  
  _one_
  
   _two_
  
   _three_
  
   _four_
  
   _five_
  
   _six_
  
   _seven_
  
   _eight_
  
   _nine_
  
   _ten_
  
   _eleven_
  
   _twelve_
  
   _thirteen_
  
   _fourteen_
  
   _fifteen_
  
   _sixteen_
  
   _seventeen_
  
   _eighteen_
  
   _nineteen_
  
   _twenty_
  
   _twenty-one_
  
   _twenty-two_
  
   _twenty-three_
  
   _twenty-four_
  
   _twenty-five_
  
  __About the Author__
  
   _ _Also by Lee Child__
  
   _ _Copyright Page__
  
   _Dedicated to the memory of Adele King_
  
   **one**
  
   **As serious as a heart attack.** Maybe those were Ken Kramer’s last words,
  like a final explosion of panic in his mind as he stopped breathing and
  dropped into the abyss. He was out of line, in every way there was, and he
  knew it. He was where he shouldn’t have been, with someone he shouldn’t have
  been with, carrying something he should have kept in a safer place. But he was
  getting away with it. He was playing and winning. He was on top of his game.
  He was probably smiling. Until the sudden thump deep 