Subsequent to disassembling a human trafficking ring, previous military specialist turned vigilante wanderer Jack Reacher comes back to his old military home office to meet Major Susan Turner, whom he has been working with amid his voyages - just to gain from Colonel Sam Morgan that Turner has been blamed for reconnaissance and confined.

Turner's lawyer, Colonel Bob Moorcroft, uncovers that there is confirmation that Turner is included in the homicides of two troopers in Afghanistan, yet Reacher trusts she is being confined. Moorcroft additionally uncovers an old colleague of Reacher, Candice Dutton, has recorded a paternity suit against him, guaranteeing he is the organic father of her 15-year-old little girl, Samantha Dutton.

Reacher attempted to connect with Samantha, however she repels him, trusting he is after her organic mother because of her past as a whore. Moorcroft is later slaughtered by an obscure professional killer. Reacher is surrounded for Moorcroft's murder and captured and transported to the jail where Turner is being confined. A professional killer lands to execute her, however Reacher kills him, saves her and they escape to Morgan's home, having found he is included in the scheme, to concentrate data.

After they leave, the professional killer, uncovered to work with Morgan, executes Morgan and edges Reacher which he finds out about from a companion, Sergeant Leach, when he requests that her explore a military temporary worker.