Jack Reacher's Rules

“If in doubt, drink coffee.”

Nothing’s too urgent for coffee.

A bad coffee mug has a thick lip—too wide, too shallow, too much mass—it will cool the drink too fast.

A good coffee mug is cylindrical in shape, narrow in relation to its height and with a thin lip.

“I love coffee. Give me the chance and I drink coffee like an alcoholic drinks vodka.”

Coffee tastes better if the latrines are dug downstream from an encampment.

U.S. Army Field Regulations, 1861

“The Reacher brothers’ need for caffeine made heroin addiction look like a little take-it-or-leave-it sideline.”

Ignore the fancy brews and get a tall house blend, black, no cream.

It’s all about the caffeine.

Coffee keeps you awake. Until you want to go to sleep.

Never say no to a cup of coffee.

THINGS YOU’LL NEVER HEAR REACHER SAY

No more coffee for me.

>>FIVE FACTS ABOUT COFFEE

The earliest recorded evidence of coffee drinking was in the middle of the fifteenth century in Yemen.

Drinking coffee increases short-term recall, and decreases the risk of gout in men over the age of forty.

After petroleum, coffee is the second most traded product in the world.

In North America and Europe the quantity of coffee drunk is about a third of that of tap water.

Finland consumes more coffee per head than any other country.