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21 " Seventeen rounds to a magazine, hence the name. "
― Lee Child , Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
22 " This is emotion,” he said. “Think about innocent little emotional words, like patriot, resistance, crush, underground, struggle, oppression, individual, distrust, rebel, revolt, revolution, rights. "
23 " He left home early, as he always did, six days a week, fifty weeks a year. A cautious breakfast, appropriate to a short round man aiming to stay in shape through his forties. A long walk down the carpeted corridors of a lakeside house appropriate to a man who earned a thousand dollars on each of those three hundred days he worked. A thumb on the button of the garage-door "
24 " nine-millimeter automatic. "
25 " name. “Jack Reacher, "
26 " patched "
27 " the mean government pension. "
28 " expensive silk jacket, ambitious. "
29 " Garber always tells the truth. So nobody ever believes him. "
30 " McGrath clicked the Glock’s trigger to release the safety device. "
31 " She tinged her attitude with a gentle mocking humor which saved people from hating her. "
32 " he would choose them if they weren’t? “They know Holly pretty well,” he said. “They’re good enough.” “Moaners and groaners? "
33 " To be afraid of a survivable thing was irrational. "
34 " They were .50-inch Barrett Model 90s. Nearly four feet long, over twenty-two pounds in weight. Bolt-action repeaters, fired a bullet a full half-inch across. "
35 " burning with energy, the sort of tireless guy who radiates total confidence. "
36 " Clicked the cocking handle to the fire position and closed her hand around the grip. "
37 " You’re pretty quick for an old guy,” he said. “That’s how I got to be an old guy,” McGrath said back. "
38 " The half-inch bullet in the Barrett chamber weighs a hair over two ounces. One minute it’s stationary. A thousandth of a second later, it’s doing nearly nineteen hundred miles an hour, leaving the barrel behind on its way to the target. "
39 " My people don’t need any encouraging. They don’t need much leading. They need guidance, and they need discipline, but don’t let that fool you. I’m not coercing anybody. Don’t make the mistake of underestimating their will. Don’t ignore their desire for a change for the better. "
40 " We’re not insured,” she said. Then she leaned under the counter and came up with a shotgun. “Not by no insurance company, anyway,” she said. "