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Jack Reacher stops at Mother's Rest and joins private investigator Michelle Chang in searching for her missing colleague. The town's coordinated hostility sends them to journalist Ashley Westwood, then to Peter McCann, who had hired the investigator to find his missing son, Michael. Their trail reveals murders, deep-web suicide boards, and an isolated farm advertised as a discreet end-of-life service. After defeating outside operative Keith Hackett and crime boss Merchenko's enforcers, Jack Reacher, Michelle Chang, and Ashley Westwood return armed. They infiltrate the operation and expose its real business - paid livestreamed torture and murder. Michael and his online partner EXIT are probable victims. Jack Reacher and Michelle Chang kill the remaining farm defenders, and the leader confirms that the missing investigator was buried by the hog pen while other victims were fed to the animals. Ashley Westwood remains to document the scene, and Jack Reacher leaves west with Michelle Chang.

Previously: Jack Reacher served as an Army military police major. He now lives as an itinerant traveler, moving on without settling and becoming involved when circumstances put a serious wrong in his path.

Jack Reacher leaves a delayed train at Mother's Rest on impulse and meets Michelle Chang, a former FBI agent who is waiting for a private-investigator colleague. The colleague summoned her as backup for an off-record assignment but fails to arrive or answer either phone. As Jack Reacher asks about the town's unexplained name, the motel operator and several merchants report his movements to an unknown authority. He stays to help after recognizing their coordinated interest in strangers. Michelle Chang identifies room 215 as her colleague's motel room. Inside, his clothes and travel items remain, but his computer, briefcase, and case papers are missing. A search uncovers a concealed scrap bearing a Los Angeles phone number beside a warning that mentions two hundred deaths. The number reaches only anonymous voicemail, and Michelle Chang cannot verify who wrote the message or whether it belongs to the case. They leave for Oklahoma City to examine the missing investigator's home.

Jack Reacher leaves a delayed train at Mother's Rest simply because the name interests him. There he meets Michelle Chang, a former FBI agent now working as a private investigator. She is waiting for a colleague who called her in as backup for an unofficial case, but he never arrives. Jack Reacher notices that the motel operator and other townspeople are reporting their movements and questions to an unseen authority. The missing investigator's belongings remain in motel room 215, while his working papers and equipment are gone. A concealed scrap points to a Los Angeles telephone number and warns of two hundred deaths. Jack Reacher and Michelle Chang travel to the investigator's Oklahoma City home, where an unnaturally empty office suggests that he was abducted and his records removed. Bookmarks there connect the Los Angeles number, Mother's Rest, and the name Maloney. The number belongs to science editor Ashley Westwood, who denies hearing from the investigator. With the lead now proven relevant, Jack Reacher and Michelle Chang turn back toward Mother's Rest.

Jack Reacher and Michelle Chang return to Mother's Rest after finding the missing investigator's home unlocked, disarmed, and stripped of current work records. Bookmarks found there connect Mother's Rest, Ashley Westwood, and the name Maloney. In town, an unplated white Cadillac transports favored visitors, while local businesses obstruct questions and isolate the investigators. Their search finds no local Maloney. The motel then packs their belongings outside, and roughly thirty men gather to force them out. Jack Reacher uses the motel's narrow upper walkway and the pair's captured firearms to prevent an attack. He makes the crowd load the baggage before he and Michelle Chang drive west. The confrontation confirms an organized effort to protect the missing investigator's last known location. They discard the captured weapons, send his valise to his Oklahoma City address, and decide to pursue Ashley Westwood in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, the Mother's Rest leader hires an outside operative called Hackett and orders him to watch Westwood.

Back in Mother's Rest, Jack Reacher and Michelle Chang find the town's resistance increasingly coordinated. A white Cadillac appears to carry important visitors on behalf of the local organization, and inquiries about Maloney lead nowhere. Roughly thirty men eventually surround the motel and force the pair to leave, but the confrontation confirms that the disappearance is tied to something larger. The town's leader hires an outside operative called Hackett to watch Ashley Westwood. Jack Reacher and Michelle Chang travel to Los Angeles, where their partnership also becomes intimate. Westwood's records show repeated calls from Maloney and six blocked callers who might have used that name. Phone research narrows the possibilities to a Chicago library volunteer named McCann. Evidence from a burner phone then establishes that McCann resumed calling as Maloney after Westwood blocked him. Jack Reacher and Michelle Chang plan to fly to Chicago, while the Mother's Rest leader orders Hackett to stop them permanently. Their supposed airport cab diverts into a warehouse route, placing them inside an apparent trap.

Jack Reacher and Michelle Chang survive the attempted interception and reach Chicago. They identify Peter McCann as an absent library volunteer and learn that he has a troubled adult son, Michael. At Peter's apartment they find extensive computer equipment, his abandoned phone, and Keith Hackett waiting with a suppressed pistol. Jack Reacher defeats Hackett. Peter's neighbor, Eleanor Hopkins, explains that Peter had hired a private investigator and was studying hidden Internet sites that cannot be found through ordinary searches. The investigation moves to Peter's sister Lydia Lair in Arizona. Lydia reveals that Peter hired Michelle Chang's missing colleague to find Michael. Keith Hackett's killing of Peter is confirmed, and the organization prepares to silence Lydia as well. Lydia explains that Michael traveled to Oklahoma after meeting someone online, then disappeared along a route consistent with the train through Mother's Rest. Peter had been investigating both Michael's movements and secret websites. Jack Reacher recognizes that the hostile network has located the Lair home and begins preparing to defend the family.

Armed contractors seize the Lair household, but Jack Reacher kills them and gets the family clear of immediate danger. Their employer is identified as Merchenko, a Phoenix crime boss who supplies outside enforcement. Jack Reacher kills Merchenko, removing that support from Mother's Rest. Ashley Westwood brings in an unnamed developer whose private search tool can locate deep-web activity. Satellite images identify an isolated, well-equipped farm south of Mother's Rest as the likely destination of visitors collected from the train. The developer finds Michael McCann's activity on suicide boards. Michael had formed a connection with a user called EXIT, traveled toward Tulsa to meet that person, and investigated a Mother's Rest service. Its website sells controlled euthanasia preparations and offers a Level 5 package that transports clients by train to a private facility for supervised death. The visible business does not explain the organization's extreme security costs, and Michael and EXIT could not have afforded its premium service. Meanwhile, a hospital scan confirms that Jack Reacher has two cerebral contusions from an earlier blow. Despite the injury, he leaves with Michelle Chang and Ashley Westwood to continue the case.

Jack Reacher studies the farm imagery and realizes that the website's advertised carbon-monoxide method cannot work because the supposed death room has no exhaust connection. Convinced that the service is a deception, he, Michelle Chang, and Ashley Westwood prepare a coordinated return to Mother's Rest. They acquire firearms, ammunition, cash, vehicles, and other supplies. The town posts lookouts with long views over both roads and the railway. The group counters that advantage with simultaneous distractions involving a train, a delivery truck, rented helicopters, and Ashley Westwood's arrival under the name Torrance. Posing as a customer, Westwood gains entry to the end-of-life service and requests the impossible gasoline-engine method. As operators begin leaving town for the farm, Jack Reacher and Michelle Chang capture five local members. The three allies then take a backhoe across the wheat to avoid the farm's private road. Defenders open fire, but the raised bucket shields the vehicle long enough for Jack Reacher and Michelle Chang to dismount and begin the assault.

Jack Reacher and Michelle Chang fight through the farm's armed defense while Ashley Westwood advances behind the backhoe's bucket. Jack Reacher kills the diner counterman and the one-eyed motel clerk, then the group enters the compound. They find cages, restraints, apparent blood, a murdered woman, recording equipment, and a library of paid torture-and-murder videos. The supposed suicide service is a lure for livestreamed killings. Recordings appear to show a recent train passenger and, less certainly, Michael McCann with EXIT. The remaining defenders attack from the studio. Jack Reacher kills the hog farmer, and he and Michelle Chang chase the operation leader to the hog pen. The leader admits that most victims were fed to the hogs and confirms that the missing private investigator was murdered and buried there because the animals had already been fed. Michelle Chang kills him, ending the farm's active resistance. After returning the damaged backhoe and compensating its owner, Ashley Westwood stays to organize photographic coverage of the aftermath. Jack Reacher asks Michelle Chang to keep traveling with him. She leaves Mother's Rest westbound with him without giving a final spoken answer.

Jack Reacher, Michelle Chang, and Ashley Westwood penetrate Mother's Rest through coordinated diversions, then reach the isolated farm in a backhoe. They discover that the advertised end-of-life service is a front for paid livestreams of torture and murder. Recordings probably include Michael McCann, EXIT, and a recent train passenger, though Michael and EXIT are not identified with certainty. Jack Reacher kills several armed defenders, including the hog farmer, while Michelle Chang kills the fleeing operation leader after he explains that victims were generally fed to the hogs. The missing private investigator was murdered and buried at the hog pen because the animals had already been fed. The local operation is destroyed, Keith Hackett is in police custody after being badly injured, and Merchenko is dead. Ashley Westwood stays to arrange documentation of the aftermath. Jack Reacher asks Michelle Chang to continue traveling with him. She does not give a final spoken answer, but drives west with him, leaving their relationship open while their partnership continues.