Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

by Lee Child

He hit the right-hand guy in the side of the head with his elbow. Lots of good biological reasons for doing that.

“What’s the best way south?” she asked. “On a plane,” he said.

Reacher was a connoisseur of eyes, and he rated these two as more than acceptable.

“Flying’s OK,” Reacher said. Harper nodded. “I know, crashing is the problem.” “Hardly ever happens, statistically.”

EVERYBODY USES MOBILES. They use them all the time, just constantly. It’s a phenomenon of the modern age. Everybody’s talk, talk, talking, all the time, little black telephones pressed up to their faces. Where does all that conversation come from? What happened to all that conversation before mobiles were invented? Was it all bottled up? Burning ulcers in people’s guts? Or did it just develop spontaneously because technology made it possible?