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Reacher had been a cop. He knew what it was like. Running here, running there, phones ringing, eat when you can, sleep when you can. === They looked like a faded billboard for an old - time black and white movie. === The street was empty. There were no guns. There was no action at all. Not yet. Just a staring competition. And posing. === “I’m trying to figure out where that would fall, on a scale of likelihood. Where ten means it’s extremely likely to happen, and one means it isn’t going to happen in a million years. I have to tell you, right now the numbers popping up in my mind are all fairly small. ” === Reacher lined him up and threw his punch. Legend had it the fastest hands in boxing could move at thirty miles an hour, much faster than Reacher, who was happy with twenty, but even at that slower speed his fist crossed the yard of air in front of him in a tenth of a second.