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Jack Reacher: Book 9

One Shot (2005) (edit title/settings)

by Lee Child (Author) (edit contributors)

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Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, from the world he lives in—no phone, no... read more

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  • “I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.”
    Jack Reacher
  • “Pick your own cliche. It's a cast-iron, solid-gold slam dunk. It's Willie Mays under a fly ball.”
    Jack Reacher
  • “I went to college. West Point is technically a college.”
    Jack Reacher.
  • “It's about surprise, really. If you can surprise them you don't have to hit them very hard.”
    Jack Reacher.
  • “If it absolutely positively has to be destroyed by morning, call the United States Marine Corps.”
    Jack Reacher
  • “Army. Always bitching about something.”
    Gunny Cash
  • “They sleep safely in their beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do them harm. (George Orvell)”
    Jack Reacher
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  • “The existing social order is a swindle and its cherished beliefs mostly delusions.” “It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it,”
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  • It’s about surprise, really. If you can surprise them you don’t have to hit them very hard.”
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  • “One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.” “Joseph Stalin,”
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  • His life was like that. It was a mosaic of fragments. Details and contexts would fade and be inaccurately recalled, but the feelings and the experiences would weave over time into a tapestry equally full of good times and bad.
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  • So now you’ve got to pit your strong desire to survive against my strong desire to shoot you in the head and piss in the bullet hole.”
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  • Because, rule nine: Don’t run head-on into Jack Reacher.
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  • Sleep when you can, because you never know when you’re going to sleep again.
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  • “Property is theft,” Reacher said. “Proudhon,”
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First Sentence edit see section history

Friday. Five o'clock in the afternoon. Maybe the hardest time to move unobserved through a city.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Chapters 1 - 17

Errata edit see section history

Reacher mentions that he's never owned a home. For a short period, he owned a home in New York which was left to him by Leon Garber (Running Blind).

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 9 of 20 in Jack Reacher. (standard series)

Preceded by The Enemy, and followed by The Hard Way.

This is book 8 of 20 in Jack Reacher (Reading Order). (standard series)

Preceded by Persuader, and followed by The Hard Way.

This is book 1 of 121 in Znanje - Knjiga dostupna svima. (community list)
This is book 3 of 17 in New York Times Bestsellers - Paperback Mass-Market Fiction (Current). (authoritative list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Lee Child (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Delacorte (Bantam, a div. of Random House)
Country: New York, NY USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0385336683
Page Count: 376

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Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3553.H4838 O53 2005
  • Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Adults

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