Jack Reacher arrives in Margrave with a mysterious, but quite peaceful purpose and... immediately gets to the police station. It turns out that in this quiet prosperous town for the first time in the last thirty years, there was a murder, and Reacher was seen near the crime scene. His story does not impress the investigator, so the detainee will still have to prove that he did not kill anyone, at least here and now, and in addition, he is far from new to police affairs. In the town is becoming more alarming, the brutal murders continue, and under the pressure of circumstances that suddenly become personal, Jack Reacher begins his own investigation, getting closer to the instigators of a scam of a grandiose scale.