Worth reading: Yes.

Summary: Jack Reacher, catches a bus and then, on a whim asks the driver to put him off on the country road to Margrave. He walks the 14 miles into town and settles down to breakfast at Eno’s diner...and then gets arrested.

There has been a murder in the small, perfect town, where the cherry trees look as though they’ve been polished by hand.

The only new arrival is Reacher, therefore Reacher is the murderer. The police cheif is adamant. That is until his story checks out and witnesses have been found.

Reacher is released. The murder victim is his older brother. Someone has made a very fatal mistake.

This could be the very first Jack Reacher novell. He is only in is mid thirties and has been out of the army for 6 months. This novell is also written from his point of view, not as an onlooker, and gives us an insite to the younger Jack Reacher.

Excellent reading.