^ No, but it is fuss-free. Although he has to shop every couple of days.

Reacher also has to travel around the US by bus, so that he is not easily traced. Buses are not something well-dressed people use. Mrs. Thatcher would have considered him a failure for the bus thing alone.

^There is a difference between a London Routemaster and sitting on a Greyhound for days  to get from Florida to Indiana.

I've ridden Greyhound.  Funny smells on Greyhound buses.  You do get to stop at some out-of-the-way towns you'd never even think about passing through otherwise.

Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher is a non-starter for me ... .. Reacher's the unmaterialisic anti-Bond ... he's tough and smart and can handle Greyhound bus travel and not lose his head.  The Reacher books were good from the start but so much of the character depends on his being six and a half feet tall that a shorter actor like Tom Cruise simply can't measure up faithfully.  Who'd have been good?  Clint circa 1971?

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It's been a couple years since I read one but I remember him saying that he would put his trousers under his  mattress at night, for the next day, in lieu of pressing them.