Jack Reacher/Awesome: Difference between revisions

*** I'm fairly certain this is also the book where he escapes from two attack dogs sent after him by staring them down.

** In ''Without Fail'', after he and Neagley corner the pair of would-be assassins. After their car crashes in a snowdrift and Neagley is taken hostage, Reacher is about to be shot by the rifle-bearer. He then convinces the shooter not to use the rifle, since the slush in the barrel would make it explode. So the man draws a pistol. Reacher remarks that since it's a police sidearm it would leave a trace. So the guy pulls out a ''different'' pistol, this one from M.E. Froelich's house. It is noticed near the start, and Reacher remarks that [[Chekhov's Gun|you shouldn't keep bullets in a magazine because the spring loses its tension and you end up hearing a 'click' instead of firing]]. Sure enough, the gun fails to fire and Reacher beats the shit out of him.

** In ''One Shot'', the villains are holed up in a house rigged with thermal cameras with absolutely no cover for about 200 yards around and one has a sniper rifle. All Reacher has is a knife and an ex-Marine with a sniper rifle. Reacher dunks himself in ice-cold water and ''walks'' into the house. Then chucks his knife into the head of one of them and ''crushes another one to death'' (who is of comperable size to Reacher). He slits the throat of another and hurls the sniper out the window headfirst. Then he shoves a stolen revolver into the mastermind's throat and tells him he has the count of until his birthday to admit the whole conspiracy.

*** Two possible moles then show up for the confession. The ex-Marine sniper Cash is hiding behind the sofa. [[The Mole]] is revealed to be the cop Emerson, and the sniper shows up with a broken right arm and a shotgun. Reacher calls his bluff on the shotgun (how do you pump a shotgun with one arm?). He gives him the count of three to shoot. At two he sidesteps and Cash shoots the sniper.