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ECHO BURNING

By Lee Child

“They had a choice. They could have been upstanding human beings. But they chose not to be. Then they chose to mess with me, which was the final straw, and they got what they got. …”

“You’re a hard man, Reacher,” Alice said.

“I think I’m a realistic man,” he said. “And a decent enough guy, all told.”

“You may find normal people don’t agree.”

He nodded.

“A lot of you don’t,” he said.