Late at night, six people sit in an almost empty New York subway car. One of them is Jack Reacher, who is as wanderlust as ever. Suddenly his attention was attracted by one of his fellow travelers. The woman looks and behaves somehow strange. A terrorist with a suicide belt?.. Well, Jack’s credo in life is to look for and find trouble for himself. Reacher approached the woman, trying to distract her, and she... took out a revolver and shot herself in the head. Jack doesn’t understand anything - until a variety of people start turning to him, asking only one thing: “What did she tell you before she died?” It seems that there is some kind of secret connected with the stranger. And solving other people's secrets is another part of Reacher's life credo. And the more dangerous they are, the better...