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She had written, “You’re like New York City. I love to visit, but I could never live there.” === There had been Iraq, and there had been Afghanistan:2005 had been a tough year to graduate. === People donate things and take the deduction.…
Being dumb wasn’t a capital crime. Wasn’t a crime at all, in fact. Merely a handicap. === Bigfoot. She got the gist. A mythic ape-man, hairy, seven feet tall, from the Northwest woods. === There was a dog on the back seat. Like a German…
There’s something out there. The oldest fear in human history. === Reacher walked the length of the motel to an area near the fuel pumps, where a kind of unofficial hitchhiking market was being run, by a homeless-looking guy wearing a…
Reacher saw a petite Asian woman, wearing a black skirt suit like a uniform. Five feet nothing, maybe ninety-five pounds soaking wet. === … reckless. There’s a clue in the word. Reck comes from reckon, and I felt I did more reckoning than…
He was tall and thin. Maybe six feet two. Maybe a hundred sixty pounds. But only if he had a dollar’s worth of pennies in his pocket. All skin and bone, and awkward as a stepladder. === I could rip your arm off and beat you to death with…
“You took a risk coming here.” “Getting up in the morning is a risk. Anything could happen.” === Aspen groves blazed like flares on the slopes. Whole copses of hundreds of separate trees, but all joined together underground by a single…
“This is Wyoming. They drive epic distances for a loaf of bread. For a girlfriend, two hours, maybe. A hundred miles.” === Everyone lives twenty miles from everyone else. === Bramall told a joke about about a lawyer who died and got to…
Addicts are other people, with a dirty needle in a toilet stall. What they have is a pharmaceutical product, made in a lab, by pretty girls in masks who hold test tubes up to the light, with wondrous concern radiating from their clear blue…
The café was a new-age place, with all kinds of healing juices, and sandwiches Reacher figured had been put together by a blind man. All kinds of random ingredients. Huge seeds in the bread. Like sawdust mixed with ball bearings. === “You…
High overhead ravens circled, and looked, and thought not yet, and soared away. === “You wanted to know the story.” “I got most of it,” Reacher said. “I got to the part where it ends about twenty miles before the road runs…
He had nothing to hide. The buzz, maybe, but hey, this was the panhandle. A couple of beers was probably a minimum requirement to get behind the wheel. === Stackley enjoyed dealing dope. Customers were so grateful and enthusiastic. Not…
Some things were more important to a person. More important than family and friends and any kind of a regular trustworthy life. No one should ever underestimate the appeal of an opiate high. === We need to make fast decisions here. We…
Some kind of an atavistic feeling, deep in the back of your brain, about your place on the ladder, from back when the only ladders were trees. === Their heads came up an inch, with new resolve in their eyes, as if they were subject to an…
Once again we underestimated them. These unshaven guys wearing dresses had predicted exactly how we were going to attack, and even exactly where we would stand to plan it out, and exactly when we would show up to do it. === These are…