Jack Reacher's Rules

THE PENTAGON

WHAT

Headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. Completed in January 1943, it covers 600,000 square meters of floor area—the world’s largest office building. About 31,000 military and civilian employees work there. It has five rings of corridor per floor on five floors—covering seventeen miles. There is a fiveacre pentagonal courtyard in the middle.

WHERE

Arlington County, Virginia, on the Potomac River flood plain

HOW

Departments within the DOD control the Army, Navy, Air Force, military technology, budget, and policy.

HOW FAST

There are ten radial hallways between the rings; traveling at Army marching pace of 4 mph, a person can make it between any two random points inside in a maximum of seven minutes.

“To escape into the Pentagon was no kind of a good idea.”