THERE ARE TWO types of trains running up and down the Hudson River between Grand Central and Croton-Harmon: locals and expresses. The expresses do not run any faster in terms of speed, but they stop less often. They make the journey last somewhere between forty-nine and fifty-two minutes. The locals stop everywhere, and the repeated braking and waiting and accelerating spin the trip out to anywhere between sixty-five and seventy-three minutes. A maximum advantage for the express of up to twenty-four minutes. Reacher was on a local. He had given the trainman five and a half bucks for an
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What a fucking pair of incredible paragraphs. I truly love that these are so workman and plotty but have the good sense to offer these outright belting prose. I might be super into these now.
