The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

by Lee Child

The Summer of Love. The Mamas and the Papas, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company. Reacher liked music like that. He had been seven during the Summer of Love, and he wished he had been seventeen.

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa. It covers an area of 274,223 km2 (105,878 sq mi), bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. As of 2021, the country had an estimated population of 23,674,480. Previously called Republic of Upper Volta (1958–1984), it was renamed Burkina Faso by President Thomas Sankara. Its citizens are known as Burkinabè, and its capital and largest city is Ouagadougou.

soldier knows that a satisfactory observation point provides an unobstructed view to the front and adequate security to the flanks and the rear. He knows it provides protection from the elements and concealment of the observers. He knows it offers a reasonable likelihood of undisturbed occupation for the full duration of the operation.”

Impossible to describe it a moment after closing the door on it, but with it right there for direct comparison a match might be found.

Cheaney, from Northampton in England.

Cheaney, also known as Joseph Cheaney & Sons, is a shoe company based in Northamptonshire, England that has been making shoes since 1886. The company is known for its commitment to traditional craftsmanship and combining heritage with innovation. Cheaney shoes are made in their red brick Victorian factory in the village of Desborough, located on the outskirts of Northampton. The eight-week process of making Cheaney shoes takes place entirely in the factory, from pattern design to leather cutting and polishing Joseph Cheaney, a cobbler who was previously the factory manager at a nearby shoemaker, founded the company in 1886. For the first 80 years of business, Cheaney made shoes for other retailers, but in 1967 they launched their own brand, Cheaney of England. In 2009, cousins Jonathan and William Church bought Cheaney from Church & Co.. Their family has been making shoes for five generations. Cheaney shoes are available for both men and women, and include revamped classics and seasonal pieces. Some of their top picks include: Mens Crowndale Wholecut Oxford in Brown Museum Calf Leather Tiger Moth II C Military Style Mid Calf Derby Boot in Black Kudu Leather

Tenterden, which was a brown semi-brogue made of heavy pebbled leather.

The Tenterden is a brown semi-brogue shoe made of heavy pebbled leather that was worn by Jack Reacher in Lee Child's novel The Hard Way. The shoes are bench-made by Cheaney, a company from Northampton, England, and have heavy composite soles from Dainite. Each shoe weighs more than two pounds and has a five-layer stack heel that's an inch and a quarter thick. Reacher prefers Dainite soles to leather soles because they don't wear out as quickly and stay dry after it rains.

Instead he walked straight ahead and crossed Central Park West and went in through the gate to Strawberry Field. The John Lennon memorial, in the park. Near where Lennon was killed. Like most guys his age Reacher felt that The Beatles were part of his life. They were its soundtrack, its background. Maybe that was why he liked English people.

since I’m among friends and colleagues, I might as well push the boat out.”

Mirror on a stick.”

It's a prison term for an illicit communications tool. In a row of cells in a block or a tier, it's possible for convicts to talk to each other, but not see each other. So they rig a piece of broken mirror on some kind of extending arm and stick it out through the bars when the COs aren't around (another thing you can tell with such a device). About being given one-- a guess someone new to the house might be clued in about this practice and given a cheat by an old hand, as an act of kindness or an overture, presumably someone adjacent to the new man's crib, or no more than a couple or three cells away. Any kind of figurative use of "mirror on a stick" is possible, but the original term means a kind of cheat, like a shank, or a curtain hook with a bent tip for picking small locks. .

arable

arable /ˈerəb(ə)l/ I. adjective 1. (of land) used or suitable for growing crops. 2. (of crops) able to be grown on suitable land. 3. concerned with growing arable crops • arable farming. II. noun arable land or crops. – origin late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin arabilis, from arare ‘to plow.’