He was just trying to hitch a bus ride, but after an accident, Jack Reacher finds himself stranded in Bolton, S.D. The town's police department asks his help in keeping a witness alive, especially after two people have been found shot to death.

No one is aware that the murders are being orchestrated seventeen hundred miles away in Mexico by a vicious criminal named Plato. who knows a nearby biker camp holds a secret that even the town is not aware of. Reacher needs to solve the murders, figure out why the camp is so important, and avoid freezing to death -- and there's only 61 hours remaining.