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The New York Times bestselling author of Killing Floor and Die Trying returns with a new Jack Reacher thriller-in which a labrynthine trail of murder leads Jack straight into a trap...set by the most vicious opponent he's ever faced.
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Characters edit
- Jack Reacher: Former Military policeman/Drifter/Do-gooder
- Jodie Garber: the daughter of General Garber, his former commanding officer.
- Hook Hobie: bad guy loan shark
- General Leon Garber: Reacher's mentor and surrogate father in the Army.
- Tony: Hobie's receptionist
- Marilyn Stone: Chester's Wife
- Nash Newman: Anthropologist in the army. Hard working.
- Costello: Private Eye
- Dewitt: General Dewitt, Marine Corps flying instructor. Served in Vietnam.
- Sheryl: Real estate agent, friend of Marilyn Stone.
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- Chester Stone: man hood-winked by the hook
- Mrs Jacob: Jodie Garber's married name
- Carl Allen
- Victor Hobie
- Sark
- Conrad
- Steven
- Kaplan
- Mr Curry
- Gunston
- David Forster
- Duval
- Tahoe
- Rucker
- Simon
- Zabrinski
- Soper
- Tardelli
Quotes edit
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“They were both MP lieutenants, both twenty-four years old. I was an MP lieutenant when I was twenty-four. They were killed because of what you did wrong. That's why you're going to answer to me, Allen. Because I'm them. Scum like you gets people like me killed.”
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“I want to see Saint Vincent. And I want to see him right now. Tell him to get his sorry ass in this room inside five minutes of I'm going to be seriously pissed off.”
Jack Reacher
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People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things properly, there’s nothing much to regret.
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Combat is about time and space and opposing forces. Like a huge four-dimensional diagram. First step is misinform the enemy. Let him think your diagram is a completely different shape. You assume all communications are penetrated, and then you use them to spread lies and deceit. You buy yourself an advantage.
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Piet Mondrian was his favorite painter of all time, and this exact picture was his favorite work of all time. The title was Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue.
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ask once, ask twice if you must, but for God’s sake don’t ask three times.
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pity the man who gets what he wants. And it’s better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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WITHOUT FAIL ECHO BURNING RUNNING BLIND TRIPWIRE
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Detection and response. Stage one, stage two. First you spot the threat, and then you react.
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Yard work summed up the whole futile procedure. First you spend a lot of time and money making the grass grow, just so you can spend a lot of time and money cutting it down again a little while later. You curse about it getting too long, and then you worry about it staying too short and you sprinkle expensive water on it all summer, and expensive chemicals all fall.
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Don’t worry about why it went wrong. Just damn well put it right.
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drayage around here. ” “It looks pretty heavy, ” he said.
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Setting & Locations edit
- New York City
- Hawaii
- Vietnam
- Manhattan
- Steyr
- Wall Street
- Brighton
- Hanoi
- Alabama
- Pound Ridge
- Texas
- Missouri
- St Louis
- Pacific
- West Point
- Chicago
- Bangkok
- Key West: where Reacher was when Costello came looking for him
- Honolulu
- America
- Huey
- Korea
- Long Island
- Midtown
- Bravada
- Westchester
- Mondrian
- United States
- Hobies
- Dallas
- Europe
- Brooklyn
- Manila
- Garrison
First Sentence edit
Hook Hobie owed the whole of his life to a secret nearly thirty years old.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 3 of 17 in Jack Reacher. (standard series)
Preceded by Die Trying, and followed by Running Blind.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0399144676
Page Count: 343
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0399144676
Page Count: 343
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: CPB Box no. 2102 vol. 9
- Dewey: 813.54
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