Echo Burning (2001) (edit title/settings)

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Characters edit see section history

• Jack Reacher: Protagonist
• Alice Amanda Aaron: Harvard Law graduate, practicing law at a legal mission in Pecos, Texas; comes from a wealthy family in New York.
• Mrs. Carmen Greer: married housewife with one child and an abusive husband.
• Hack Walker: District Attorney running for judge.
• Robert Clay Allison: Carmen's brother-in-law
• Billy: ranch hand at the Red Ranch
• Joshua: Work hand at the Red Ranch
• Mary Ellen Greer: Carmen and Sloop's six-year old daughter. Smart girl.
• Rusty Greer: Bobby and Sloop's mother
• Rodriguez: Texas State Police Officer
• Clay Allison: Texan folk hero
• Albert E. Eugene: Sloop's lawyer & friend
• Lincoln: Add a description of this character.
• Cowan Black
• Jodie Garber: Reacher's ex-girlfriend
• Raoul García
• Lyndon J. Brewer
• Chester A. Arthur: President. Reacher uses this name as an alias
• Judith
• Sloop Greer: Wife beater and abuser.
• Rodríguez
• Bobby Greer
• Ellie Greer
• Copernicus
• Ben Franklin
• Josh

Quotes edit see section history

• “I know I'm smarter than an armadillo.”

  Jack Reacher

• “When you've got arms bigger than most people's legs, sometimes you need to exploit what nature gave you.”

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• ‘Law and order are everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy.’”

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• “ ‘Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.’”

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• You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.”

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• Sleep when you can, so you won’t need to when you can’t.

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• parsimonious attitude about money betrayed all kinds of other negative possibilities.

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• Hope for the best, plan for the worst. That was his guiding principle.

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• pogrom, a year long. Somebody should have paid.” “Did you recognize that Balzac

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• pedantic, he thought. Then he crawled back and lay facedown on the ground, tight up against the VW, with his right shoulder tucked under the little running board and the right side of his face pressed against the sidewall of

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Texas
• Abilene
• Dallas
• New York
• Mexico
• California
• Lubbock
• Echo County
• San Angelo
• Pacific
• Europe

First Sentence edit see section history

Table of Contents edit see section history

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Running Blind, and followed by Without Fail.

Preceded by Running Blind, and followed by Without Fail.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Lee Child (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3553.H4838 E29 2001
• Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Violence

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Mystery

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Lee Child: Author's website

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