The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

by Lee Child

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

He was a big believer in shock and awe and surprise and overwhelming force.

“I could tell you, but then I’d have to bill you.”

“More than never, less than always.”

“Morphine dates from 1805. The hypodermic syringe dates from 1851. A

great combination, just in time for the Civil War, which left hundreds of thousands of addicts.

Then World War One, same thing. Literally millions of add...

“World War One was also the start of large-scale facial injuries. Millions of them, by the end. The French called them the mutilés.

There was an early type of plastic surgery back then, but mostly they wore tin masks. Artists would match them to their skin color. But nothing really worked.