Jeff Harding

Max Mingus is bitter and broke, reduced to working seedy divorces, a middle-aged PI haunted by his past as an enforcer in the Miami PD's notoriously corrupt Task Force. When Max's old boss Eldon Burns is brutally murdered, there are many who feel he had it coming. Max discovers evidence pointing to a former Black Power activist.

Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks14 miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in 30 years. The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure. They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.