255:. Convoluted military politics and a technicality let Barr walk free. Reacher swore to track the sniper down if he ever tried it again. Reacher believes Barr is guilty, but Barr's sister Rosemary is convinced of her brother's innocence. She entreats lawyer Helen Rodin to defend him. Helen's father is the district attorney who will prosecute the case. When Reacher arrives in Indiana, Barr has been beaten so badly while in prison that he cannot remember anything about the day of the murders. Local
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seemed a slam-dunk, but is now falling apart. Reacher is teamed with Helen, working against a prosecution team that has a secret of its own. Reacher gets closer to the unseen enemy pulling the strings, leading him to the real perpetrators, a
Russian gang masquerading as legitimate businessmen. The gang's 80-year-old capo spent much of his life in a Soviet gulag and is known only as the
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After the visit to the shooting range, Reacher adds Cash's information to the case evidence. Helen and
Rosemary sift through the clues and get Reacher to conclude that Barr is innocent, which means someone set up Barr as the sniper. Someone is also trying to get Reacher off the case, which formerly
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who owns the place. This makes
Reacher doubt the solidity of the case against Barr. Cash is unwilling to reveal information or his records to Reacher, but grudgingly agrees to talk if Reacher hits a paper target dead center at 300 yards with one shot. After succeeding, Reacher is shown 32 sheets of
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news reporter Ann Yanni is looking for information about the case, and
Reacher includes her in his investigation, in exchange for the use of her car and a guaranteed public exposé on Barr. Reacher knows that 35 yards, the parking garage shooting distance to the victims, is point-blank range for a
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Indiana city, a gunman in a parking garage fires into a rush-hour crowd in a public plaza, killing five apparently random victims with six shots. The shooter leaves a trail behind for the police to track him down. Evidence of a shell case and a
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Instead of clearing Barr, Reacher wants to assist the prosecution in convicting him. When
Reacher was an investigating military policeman years past, Barr had gone on a killing spree similar to the Indiana shootout, murdering four men during the
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target paper from three years' worth of Barr's practice shootings, every single sheet with dead-on maximum scores. Reacher deduces that the target sheets were faked by using a handgun at point blank range.
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