They found out about him in July and stayed angry all through August. They tried to kill him in September. It was way too soon. They weren't ready. The attempt was a failure. It could have been a disaster, but it was actually a miracle. Because nobody noticed.
Lee ChildTags: opening-paragraph
Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!
Lee ChildTags: writing
he was keeping track of time. It was nearly two hours since he had last looked at his watch, but he knew what time it was to within about twenty seconds. It was an old skill, born of many long wakeful nights on active service. When you're waiting for something to happen, you close your body down like a beach house in winter and you let your mind lock onto the steady pace of the passing seconds. It's like suspended animation. It saves energy and it lifts the responsibility for your heartbeat away from your unconscious brain and passes it on to some kind of a hidden clock. Makes a huge black space for thinking in. But it keeps you just awake enough to be reach for whatever you need to be ready for. And it means you always know what time it is.
Lee ChildI have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.
Lee ChildTags: jack-reacher
No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.
Lee ChildTags: jack-reacher
This was like July 13th, 1943, the pivotal day of the Battle of the Kursk. We were like Alexander Vasilevsky, the Soviet general. If we attacked now, this minute, we had to keep on and on attacking until the enemy was run off his feet and the war was won. If we bogged down or paused for breath even for a second, we would be overrun again.
Lee ChildYou do not mess with the special investigators.
Lee ChildReacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.
Lee ChildEnough, a person might say, if that person lived in the civilized world, the world of movies and television and fair play and decent restraint. But Reacher didn’t live there. He lived in a world where you don’t start fights but you sure as hell finish them, and you don’t lose them either, and he was the inheritor of generations of hard-won wisdom that said the best way to lose them was to assume they were over when they weren’t yet.
Lee ChildTags: jack-reacher
I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.
Lee ChildTags: jack-reacher
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