Quotation

Night School

a Jack Reacher Novel
One time he had rotated through an army fight school, where the toughest instructor liked to say the best fights are the fights you don’t have. No risk of defeat, no risk of injury. However slight or unlikely. === “That would be highly speculative.” “What the MP business would call a wild-ass guess.” “Is that better than a Hail Mary, or worse?” “It leaves a Hail Mary so far behind you can barely see it. It’s a gut call. Like closing your eyes and swinging the bat.” === He told Orozco as of ten hundred Zulu and eleven hundred Lima he was TDY to the NSC and for further detail an immediate 10-16 was required at the front desk number. === “Are you serious?” “As lung cancer.” === He looked as quick as an outhouse rat. And