Jack Reacher's fate has often taken the steepest turns for the smallest of reasons. And now he just had nothing to do to go into the junk shop in a small remote town. There he happened to notice a small ring engraved "West Point, 2005." As a graduate of the Military Academy himself, Reacher could not pass by. The ring is clearly female in size. And since it got to the junk man, it means that something is wrong with this woman. Did she sell it out of dire need? Or is she no longer alive? Reacher firmly learned the law of military brotherhood: "We do not abandon our own..."