No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

by Lee Child

War is not about dying for your country. It’s about making the other guy die for his.

Old Laurent Moutier was gone, at the age of ninety, taking with him like everyone does a lifetime of unknown private hopes and dreams and fears and experiences, and leaving behind him like most people do a thin trace of himself in his living descendants.

And it’s getting more and more important all the time. People say we’re headed back to the 1980s. But they’re wrong. We’re headed back to the 1930s.”