Reach decides to hitchhike to the Canadian border, where he befriends a pair of hikers who've decided to trek across the border via a wilderness path. Reacher is about to head on when the military arrives and seals off the trail, but our hikers have already snuck in. Will the government track down the hikers? Will Reacher help them? Do the hikers have an ulterior motive and has the governent laid a clever trap for them?

Maaaaayyyybe.