A small town in the middle of nowhere. An unimaginable crime. Only Jack Reacher takes up the fight. Jack Reacher follows a sudden impulse as he steps off the train in the small town of Mother's Rest somewhere in the Midwest. Private investigator Michelle Chang is there waiting in vain for her partner and strikes up a conversation with Reacher. Just through a few casually spoken words, he becomes the target of a ruthless gang that has already killed Chang's partner. But the criminals underestimate what they are getting into when they also want to murder Reacher—because no one is tougher than Jack Reacher.