Reacher does so anyway, and learns that the dead woman, Janice Chapman, was the third woman murdered in Carter's Crossing in just the last few months the other two were young women from the poorer, largely African American section of town. A former Marine, she quickly deduces Reacher's true identity and purpose, but permits him to stay as long as he doesn't interfere with her investigation. Posing as a drifter, Reacher takes up residence in a local inn and goes for a meal, where he meets the sheriff, Elizabeth Deveraux. He also puts Reacher in touch with Colonel John James Frazer, a Senate liaison who warns Reacher that Reed's father, Senator Carlton Riley, a member of the Armed Services Committee, is threatening to impose harsh budget cuts on the army if his son is targeted. Garber informs Reacher that another MP, Major Duncan Munro, has been assigned to investigate the murder his job is to go undercover and ensure that Munro's investigation doesn't damage the military's public image. Jack Reacher is briefed by his superior Leon Garber on a troubling development in Carter's Crossing, Mississippi: a woman has been found murdered, her throat slit, with signs of rape, and the military is concerned that one of the potential suspects seems to be Captain Reed Riley, a commander at Fort Kelham, a nearby Army Ranger base, with a reputation as a ladykiller. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission-and turn him into a man to be feared. Finding unexpected layers to the case, Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. Uncertain they can trust each other, they reluctantly join forces. But when he gets to Carter Crossing Reacher meets local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux, who has a thirst for justice and an appetite for secrets.

Reacher is ordered undercover to find out everything he can and then to vanish. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997.ДЄ lonely railroad track.

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