The barber says his sister used to sing with Blind Blake. Reacher explores Margrave and meets an elderly barber who claims to know about Blind Blake, a blues musician Reacher is interested in who apparently died in Margrave 60 years prior. Now that the crime is personal, Reacher decides to stay in town and punish those responsible for Joe’s murder. The second victim was also shot and tried to flee he was found halfway up the interstate embankment. Joe was shot twice in the head, then viciously beaten after death. At the morgue, Reacher reads the postmortem report on the first victim and realizes the man is his estranged older brother, Joe Reacher. Reacher plans to buy Roscoe lunch to thank her, but their plans are cancelled when a second body is found at the murder site. Hubble confides in Reacher that the people he works for will kill him if he talks and hurt his family, too. Roscoe works all weekend to check their alibis and is able to have them released from Warburton. Spivey moves them to the correct floor, and Reacher wonders if their misplacement was truly an accident. Spivey’s mistake leads Reacher and Hubble to be attacked in their cell and in the bathrooms and Reacher wins every fight with brutal efficiency. In Warburton, the assistant warden, Spivey, places Reacher and Hubble on the third floor with the lifers instead of in the holding area on the sixth floor. Reacher waits in the holding cell, and when Hubble confesses to the murder, both men are sent to Warburton State Prison for the weekend while the department checks their alibis. Finlay sends Officer Baker to bring Hubble in for questioning. At Reacher’s suggestion, Finlay calls the phone number and learns it belongs to a banker, Paul Hubble, who lives in Margrave. Finlay shows Reacher a scrap of paper recovered from the victim’s shoe: it has the word “Pluribus” typed on it alongside a phone number.
Finlay interrogates Reacher about the murder of an unnamed man just outside of town near Kliner Industries the police chief, Morrison, identifies Reacher as a man he saw hanging around the crime scene. At the police station, Reacher meets Roscoe, the only woman on the force, and Finlay, the captain of the detective bureau and the only Black man in the department. Content Warning: This study guide contains depictions of violence, references to racist attitudes and language, and describes threats of sexual violence.Īt the opening of the novel, Reacher is arrested in Margrave, Georgia for a murder he did not commit.
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