In Too Deep Quotes

“Reacher’s pass said he was in boarding group one but four other categories of customers were called before him, which offended his sense of order.”
― Lee Child, In Too Deep

“reply.”
― Lee Child, In Too Deep

“is”
― Lee Child, In Too Deep

“It put another agent in a position where he had to make a choice about how to proceed. Unfortunately, the choice he made was…suboptimal. So we’re trying to massage the records to show that your report of a rumor of a dead agent came through the proper channels.”
― Lee Child, In Too Deep

“On a surveillance course years ago she’d been told that if you whisper, and your subject can’t see you, it’s next to impossible for them to recognize your voice.”
― Lee Child, In Too Deep

“Henry Ford said, what gets you to the top doesn’t keep you there.”
― Lee Child, In Too Deep

“Sounds about as likely as him spotting a fish wearing roller skates.”
― Lee Child, In Too Deep

“People leave me alone, I leave them alone.” “And if they don’t?” “I don’t.”
― Lee Child, In Too Deep

“They’re booking their new assets for what they think they’re going to be worth at the end of the following year. If they meet the projected valuation, great. They take the credit early, make it look like they’re growing faster than they are, attract more investment, rinse, repeat. And if they take on a dud that doesn’t live up to the forecast, which obviously can happen, they should book the loss. But they don’t. They have a whole complex web of subsidiaries and sister companies, and they bounce the toxic asset around between them, hoping that if they keep it moving no one will spot it. But”
― Lee Child, In Too Deep

“bound.”
― Lee Child, In Too Deep

“emergency. There’s no doubt about that. The only question is, level one or level two?’ The different levels of emergency had been laid down long ago. One was measured in minutes. It meant drop everything and run. Two was measured in hours. It meant tie up loose ends, grab what you can, and run. Vidic shuffled nearer to the front of the couch cushion. He said, ‘Level two. For sure. The Feds needed to send a guy in undercover, which shows they were fishing. They didn’t have anything solid to justify an immediate bust. They still don’t. The stranger was unconscious”
― Lee Child, In Too Deep

“Like Henry Ford said, what gets you to the top doesn’t keep you there.”
― Lee Child, In Too Deep

“Stillness bordering on the comatose was one of the two natural states that suited him. The other was explosive action.”
― Lee Child, In Too Deep