Lee Child · 2017 · thriller
Lee Child's 2017 Jack Reacher thriller. A West Point class ring in a Wisconsin pawnshop window sets Reacher on the trail of the woman who earned it and pawned it. From Milwaukee to Rapid City and a speck of a place called Mule Crossing in Wyoming, the search opens onto the wreckage of America's opioid crisis and the wounded veterans caught in it.
- 1Milwaukee
On a bus out of Milwaukee, Reacher stops in a small town and spots a tiny 2005 West Point ring in a pawn window; certain it was not sold willingly, he decides to find the woman.
- 2Rapid City
The ring's trail runs through bikers and fences to Arthur Scorpio, a laundromat crook in South Dakota, and a private eye also hunting the same lost woman.
- 3Mule Crossing
A dirt crossroads in Wyoming, where Reacher finally finds Serena Rose Sanderson, a disfigured, opioid-dependent veteran, and returns her ring.