the botched reach
it’s not impossible that the blandly hostile toothless girl at The Ennet facility had kertwanged him by giving him a dated and useless M.B.R.O. guide.
Context
Hal's first tentative move toward the recovery world routed into farce by a two-years-stale booklet: he drives fifty supperless clicks for help with the wretchedness and lands in a men's-movement encounter group instead of the Narcotics Anonymous he was scouting. The Program that will save Gately is a wrong turn and an outdated pamphlet away, and Hal — reaching for it deniably, at the most obscure meeting he could find — misses it entirely.