Jack Reacher comes to Margrave with a mysterious but completely peaceful purpose and... immediately ends up in the police station. It turns out that in this quiet, prosperous town, for the first time in the last thirty years, a murder occurred, and Reacher was spotted not far from the crime scene. The investigator is not impressed by his story, so the detainee will still have to prove: he did not kill anyone, at least here and now, and besides, he is far from new to police affairs. The town is becoming increasingly alarmed, brutal murders continue, and under the pressure of circumstances that suddenly become personal, Jack Reacher begins his own investigation, getting closer and closer to the instigators of a scam on a grandiose scale.