The 22nd Jack Reacher book begins with Reacher making a bad day worse by taking it upon himself to reunite a pawned West Point class ring with its female owner, compelled by the idea that someone would so easily give up this symbol of achievement as a West Point graduate himself. To get to the woman he is forced to go through bikers, cops, crooks and hired goons, in this triumphant return from the character described in }Forbes{ as 'the most commanding brand in fiction now'.