Without Fail Quotes

“A good coat is like a good lawyer. it covers your ass.”
― lee child, Without Fail

“They found out about him in July and stayed angry all through August. They tried to kill him in September. It was way too soon. They weren't ready. The attempt was a failure. It could have been a disaster, but it was actually a miracle. Because nobody noticed.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“problem shared is a problem halved.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“he could hear faint sounds from their”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“But storing magazines full of bullets was a bad idea. Leave them long enough, the spring in the magazine learns its compressed shape and won’t function right. More jams are caused by tired magazine springs than any other single reason. Better to keep the gun with a single shell locked in the chamber and all the other bullets loose. You can fire once right-handed while you thumb loose shells into an empty magazine with your left. Slower than the ideal, but a lot better than pulling the trigger and hearing nothing at all except a dull click. He closed the kitchen”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“They checked their weapons.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“There was a strong smell of dog food in the air. “There’s a factory here,” she said. Reacher nodded. “No kidding.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“There was a strong smell of dog food in the air.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“He could manage the language, but the content passed over his head.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“But storing magazines full of bullets was a bad idea. Leave them long enough, the spring in the magazine learns its compressed shape and won’t function right. More jams are caused by tired magazine springs than any other single reason. Better to keep the gun with a single shell locked in the chamber and all the other bullets loose. You can fire once right-handed while you thumb loose shells into an empty magazine with your left. Slower than the ideal, but a lot better than pulling the trigger and hearing nothing at all except a dull click.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“The briefcase thing is weird,”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“Then at the graveside at their mother’s funeral, which was the last time he had seen him alive.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“as”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“Are you lonely?’ ‘Sometimes. Not usually.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“Dostoevsky put his feelings in a book. I don’t have his talent. So now I’m thinking I’m going to find these guys and impress on them the error of their ways in whatever manner my own talent allows.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“I’ll leave you to it. Try to stay awake, OK?’ Crosetti smiled. ‘I usually do.’ ‘Good,’ Reacher said. ‘I like that in a sentry.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“I look for simplicity,’ Reacher said. Stuyvesant nodded. ‘So do I. I hear hoof beats, I think horses, not zebras.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“Were you a specialist? In the military police?’ ‘She was a specialist in breaking people’s necks,’ Reacher said. ‘But I guess she took an intelligent interest in the other stuff.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“Are you good at your job?” Neagley asked. Froelich paused. “Yes,” she said. “I’m pretty good.” “No, you’re not,” Reacher said. “You’re the best. The absolute best there has ever been. You’re so damn good it’s unbelievable.” “That’s how you’ve got to think,” Neagley said. “Pump yourself up. Get to the point where it’s impossible to think that these jerky guys with their silly notes are going to get within a million miles of you.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“The border between desirable and undesirable ran in a ragged irregular loop, bulging outward here and there to accommodate reclaimed blocks, swooping inward in other areas to claim inroads of its own. It was pierced in some places by gentrified corridors. Elsewhere it worked gradually, shading imperceptibly over hundreds of yards down streets where you could buy thirty different blends of tea at one end and cash checks at the other for thirty percent of the”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“You don’t really need us any more,’ Neagley said.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“A new administration needs a roster of nearly eight thousand people, and about eight hundred of them need confirmation by the Senate, of which about eighty are really key players.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“President Lincoln signed us into existence just after lunch on April fourteenth, 1865. Then he went to the theater that same night and got assassinated.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“Assassinations fall into two groups, ideological or functional. A functional assassination is where you need to get rid of a guy for some specific political or economic reason. An ideological assassination is where you murder a guy because you hate him, basically.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“People liked him,” Froelich said. “He was OK, I guess.” “Is that all?” “That’s a compliment, one brother to another.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“He went by something an old Army buddy had told him: a good coat is like a good lawyer. It covers your ass.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“President”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“Then the retributive machinery clanks into action and a flawless career spent garnering nothing but praise is trashed at the stroke of a pen, because it all has to be somebody’s fault. Shit happens, but never in an official inquiry commission’s final report.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“if you can’t attack at one end you have to defend at the other.”
― Lee Child, Without Fail

“watching, both”
― Lee Child, Without Fail