Margrave is a no-account little town in Georgia Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles in the rain, just passing through An arbitrary decision, a tribute to a guitar player who died there decades before But Margrave has just had its first homicide in thirty years And Reacher is the only stranger in town So the murder is pinned on him As nasty secrets leak out and the body count mounts, only one thing is for sure They picked the wrong guy to take the fall