A quiet, boring town in Colorado was rocked by a tragedy: a woman died. According to one respected witness, she herself threw herself under the wheels. However, former military policeman Jack Reacher, who happened to be at the scene of the incident, saw with his own eyes how a passerby, standing nearby with an indifferent look, suddenly pushed the victim under the bus, then grabbed her bag and disappeared. Reacher can't let the criminal, no matter what his motive, get away with it, and decides to get to the bottom of the truth. He learns that the woman was an employee of a private prison in Mississippi and came to Colorado to report some disturbing information to her former boss. However, he didn’t have time - he died, presumably from a heart attack. Two deaths, one after the other. And this is only part of a conspiracy in which very powerful people are involved, so when the restless Reacher disrupts their plans, they are going to eliminate the threat one way or another. But who among them could have imagined that if the threat came from Jack Reacher, Plan B would not work?..