Worth Dying For - Lee Child

Better safe than sorry.

Obedience without temptation is meaningless.

Truces are temporary. Call it an alliance. That's permanent.

This was American business, after all. Forcing down the wholesale price was the name of the game.

Except they had never had a fight. Not in the sense meant by people paid to fight or die. Pushing and shoving at the schoolyard gate or on the sidewalk outside the soda shop or late at night after a start-of-summer keg party was as far from fighting as two fat guys tossing lame spirals in the park were from the Superbowl.

The land is flat here and it's wintertime. There's nowhere to hide.

In his experience most places reserved the main drag for profit-and-loss businesses. Municipal enterprises like cops and county offices would be a block or two over. Maybe more.