Early one morning on a nearly empty Manhattan’s Lexington Avenue subway car Jack Reacher notices a woman passenger he suspects is a suicide bomber. She matches the 12-point profile perfectly, but he dismissed the thought. “Not because of racial profiling. White woman are as capable of craziness as anyone else.” He thought the timing was wrong and that it had “tactical implausibility.”
He was wrong, and it led to him finding himself on the trail leading back to the war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan in the 1980’s.
The story takes place mostly in New York City and has an urban poetry in the way the streets and buildings are analyzed like it was just a jungle to traverse using strength and guile to win.
Child continues to surprise us with the twists and turns of his plots but “Gone Tomorrow” , book 13, introduces in an unexpected way how we see evil manifests itself.
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Quotes
“Delta is full of guys who can stay awake for a week and walk a hundred miles and shoot the balls off a tsetse fly, but it’s relatively empty of guys who can do all that and then tell you the difference between a Shiite and a trip to the latrine.”
“Look, don't see, listen, don't hear. The more you engage, the longer you survive.”
“Delta is full of guys who can stay awake for a week and walk a hundred miles and shoot the balls off a tsetse fly, but it’s relatively empty of guys who can do all that and then tell you the difference between a Shiite and a trip to the latrine.”
“Look, don't see, listen, don't hear. The more you engage, the longer you survive.”
""Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in his shoes. Then when you start criticizing him, you’re a mile away and he’s got to run after you in his socks."
