Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. All Jack Reacher wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. Reacher goes to war against a town that not only wants him gone, it wants him dead. But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope, setting up a base of operations against Despair, where a huge walled-off industrial site does something nobody is supposed to see...where a garrison of well-armed military cops waits and watches...where two young men have disappeared and two young women wait and hope for their return. Joining forces with a beautiful cop who runs Hope, Reacher goes up against Despair and cracks open secrets, exposes terrifying connections to a distant war. Between a town and the man who owns it, between Reacher and his conscience, something has to give. And Reacher never gives an inch.