Publisher's Synopsis
61 Hours ended with Jack Reacher trapped in a desperate situation from which escape seemed impossible. But Reacher has done the impossible before. Now in Nebraska a drunk sits in an empty bar. The phone rings, and a woman asks for help. Seven men are having dinner in a nearby steakhouse. A stranger shows up and leaves one of them unconscious with a broken nose. Eldridge Tyler gets a call about the troublesome stranger, and he settles in with a gun for a long wait. Reacher isn't planning on sticking around. But the clannish locals don't want him gone. They want him dead. And Reacher wants to know: what, in this fearful and submissive rural county, would be worth dying for?
