A Reacher Novel: Gone Tomorrow (Hardcover)

Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell- tale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers.

Israeli counterintelligence wrote the defensive playbook. They told us what to look for. They used pragmatic observation and psy- chological insight and came up with a list of behavioral indicators.

I learned the list from an Israeli army captain twenty years ago. He swore by it. Therefore I swore by it too, because at the time I was on three weeks' detached duty mostly about a yard from his shoul- der, in Israel itself, in Jerusalem, on the West Bank, in Lebanon, lemon sometimes in Syria, sometimes in Jordan, on buses, in stores, on crowded sidewalks.

I kept my eyes moving and my mind running free down the bullet points.