The Outside Man (Matt Drake, #2)

by Don Bentley

The cardinal rule of surviving gunfights is simple: Avoid occupying the same space and time as a bullet.

During periods of intense stress, people react instinctively.

pistols were defensive weapons only.

training is great, but nothing beats experience.

American exceptionalism is driven by America’s values, and these values fundamentally differ from those held by much of the rest of the world.

Winston Churchill once said that nothing in life was so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

the kind of headbutt that would have made Jack Reacher proud.

I’d sacrificed a good many things for this job. Honor wasn’t one of them.