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Reacher Recap: Math Is Never Wrong
The big guy gets slapped; the little guy gets stomped.
What’s not in the book is the scene wherein Agnes, Zachary Beck’s household cook, tells Reacher the coffee she’s just served him — “Hot as hell, black as pitch!” — is “some posh brand” that’s been processed through a cat’s digestive tract. It really seems like Beck might find a backup system that prevents his front gate from swinging open when the power is cut to be more useful than the belt-fed machine gun mounted in his guard house, but we’ve established that this man loves firearms and isn’t all that sharp, knifewise. “They’re running guns, not drugs!” is not exactly a Keyser Söze–grade reveal, given that Zachary’s office is essentially a firearms museum and that the guy has evinced an unusual degree of interest in exactly what make and model of heat his rivals are packing.
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