Jack Reacher walks from the town of Hope to the Neighbouring town called Despair. Neither the people in despair, nor the police there are fine with strangers. Jack's urged to leave the town at once. But Reacher, an ex military police cop, does not take well to being told what to do and not to being told Especially What Not to DO. After a charge of vagrancy and being thrown out of Despair, his curiosity piqued is. He wants to know what is going on there.
The Jack Reacher novels I have read up to know, and I do have a few over the years read, have always been good. This one is ok, but definitely not up to the quality of the others. Had this been the first Jack Reacher novel I have read, I would not have gone to the bookshop afterwards hungry for more.