Margrave is a tiny, ideal town. So perfect it's frightening. Former military policeman Jack Reacher, leading a nomadic lifestyle, comes to Margrave, intending to leave the city in a couple of days. However, at this moment, the first murder in thirty years occurs in Margrave. They pin it on Reacher, the only stranger in town. And a nightmare begins for him... the first action of which is a weekend in prison, on the death floor, in the company of prisoners serving life sentences. As the disgusting secrets of the deadly conspiracy that has consumed the entire city begin to leak, the body count grows. And death becomes an epidemic.