"This is the 16th adrenaline-pumping Jack Reacher thriller from bestselling author Lee Child. It's the prequel to the first Reacher novel, Killing Floor. March 1997. A woman has had her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Is the murderer a local - or could it be a soldier from the near-by army base? Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover to investigate. This case is a turning point in his career." -- Publisher description.