There`s deadly trouble in the corn country of and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it`s the unsolved, decades-old case of a missing child that Reacher can`t let go. The Duncans want Reacher gone - and it`s not just past secrets they`re trying to hide. For as dangerous as the Duncans are, they`re just the bottom of a criminal food chain stretching halfway around the world. For Reacher, it would have made much more sense to put some distance between himself and the hard-core trouble that`s bearing down on him. For Reacher, that was also impossible.