Quotes About Investigation

Then we could collate all the possibles and go to work with the holy trinity of detectives everywhere: means, motive, opportunity. Means and opportunity wouldn't signify much. By definition nobody would be on the possibles list unless they had been proved to have opportunity. And everybody in the army was physically capable of swinging a tire iron or a crowbar against the back of an unsuspecting victim's head. It was probably a rough equivalent of the most basic entry requirement.

Reacher said, What have we missed ? Ratcliffe said, A piece of the puzzle. What do you know about computers ? I saw one once.

Reacher was led through the door on the left and onward to an interview room. Which had no windows. Just four blank walls, and a table bolted to the floor, with two chairs on one side and one on the other. The room had not been designed by the dining room guy. That was clear. There was no blond wood or carpet. Just scuffed white paint on cinder block, and a cracked concrete floor, and a fluorescent bulb in a wire cage on the ceiling.

Details. Evidence gathering. Surveillance. It's the basis of everything. You've got to settle down and watch long enough and hard enough to get what you need.

She has a caller ID system," Reacher said. "With coordinates. She's probably watching this house right now, on Google Earth." "But it's dark." "Don't ask me how it works." He

A kidnapping in Boston. A cop dies. Has Reacher lost

to Reacher's desk. It said Gunshot victim previously reported was LTC Caroline C. Crawford. DOA inside POV

OK,' Duffy said. 'So what have we got?' We had rugs. The door rattled upward and daylight

burglary for?

called the guy at the LA Times.

You'd have the IRS so far up your ass you'd see them when you brush your teeth.

Sherlock Homeless.

Major Sullivan is working on that. She wants everything dismissed. The fruits of a poisoned tree.

sent Summer away to do three things: first, list all female personnel at Fort Bird with access to their own Humvees, and second, list any of them who might have met Kramer at Fort Irwin in California, and third, contact the Jefferson Hotel in D.C. and get Vassell and Coomer's exact check-in and checkout times, plus details on all their incoming and outgoing phone calls.

whole square area from behind the secretary's head. She was at her

No specimen jars. No weird stuff pickled in formaldehyde.

Then the lights seemed to dim as Chief of Detectives Griezman walked up to their table. Six-six and three hundred pounds. Billowing gray suit the size of a pup tent. The floor creaked. Griezman said, "I am very sorry to interrupt." Reacher

The man with the jeans and the hair looked back at Westwood and said, "Mr. Torrance, I guess our first question would be whether you're wearing a wire.

rooms a thousand times before. There was a raucous through-the-wall

Why's everybody looking at me? he asked. We checked the tape, she said. You know, the surveillance camera. So? She wouldn't answer. He reviewed his time in the room. He'd showered twice, walked around some, pulled the drapes, slept, opened the drapes, walked around some more. That was all. I didn't do anything, he said. She smiled again, wider. No, you didn't. So what's the big deal? Well, you know, you don't seem to have brought any pajamas.

But you need to know whose number it is, right?" I said. "You know some way of doing that without a warrant?" he asked. "Maybe," I said. "Why don't you just call it up and see who answers?

saw Spivey.

window. Reacher

I was working on a money-laundering issue. There was a lot of cash and a mazy chain of shell corporations, like always, but I had the guy.