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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3d2af01 | Godspeed. Citius venit malum quam revertitur. Evil arrives faster than it departs. PROLOGUE ITALIAN COAST GUARD HEADQUARTERS MARITIME RESCUE COORDINATION CENTER ROME An explosion of thunder shook the building as Lieutenant Pietro Renzi, dressed in his Navy whites, answered the phone in front of him. | Brad Thor | ||
| 6999cee | As it says in Job--"They that plow iniquity and sow mischief shall reap the same." | Brad Thor | ||
| cd2121b | Do not fear failure. Do more than is required of you. Make your plans fit the circumstances. There is only one type of discipline--perfect discipline. | Brad Thor | ||
| 8af172e | Leadership was not only about taking charge, it was also about giving your team everything they needed to succeed, and then getting out of their way. It meant knowing when you should be the first person charging through a door and when you should stand down and let someone else do it. Harvath | Brad Thor | ||
| 641156c | Carlton signaled and merged into a faster-moving lane. "Jacobson gave us his file with everything on the" | Brad Thor | ||
| f3671a6 | Insecure men with a patina of authority could be annoying. Give those same men actual authority and they could be deadly. | Brad Thor | ||
| c659452 | had delivered them flawlessly. After showing a quick excerpt from the Declaration of Independence about America pledging its sacred honor to help the victims and their families, the cameras would fade to the presidential seal and that would be it. Though the circumstances were horrible, the press secretary had always hoped he'd be given a chance to write a speech that would be remembered for eternity. He felt pretty confident this was going.. | Brad Thor | ||
| 10d6b0a | In Grossman's mind, there were just three categories of human beings--sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves. | Brad Thor | ||
| 6fa3be1 | we still live in a world where might makes right. The moment we lose sight of that rule and start shrinking from our duties as a nation, is when we'll all need to begin trading in our minivans and baseball mitts for prayer rugs and Arabic lessons. | Brad Thor | ||
| b000b99 | Without someone to hunt the wolves, the sheep would never be safe. The wolves were multiplying too quickly. The sheepdogs were being overrun. | Brad Thor | ||
| 0de176a | As far as he was concerned, he had the three necessary ingredients to happiness: something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to. | Brad Thor | ||
| 2e07a4e | I know what a bar is, you nonce. | Brad Thor | ||
| 7015234 | Langley felt the airport was too controlled and therefore too easy for the Chinese to tilt in their favor. The CIA wanted a public location with multiple evacuation routes. They had cars, safe houses, changes of clothes, medical equipment, fake passports, and even a high-speed boat on standby. They had thought of every contingency and had built plans for each. That was how worried they were. Stepping inside, Harmon scanned the cafe. The ai.. | Brad Thor | ||
| 5cfe4ea | Harmon wasn't a polished Ivy Leaguer like Cahill. He was tall, built like a brick shithouse, and he didn't attend fancy parties. He usually drank alone in the decrepit back-alley bars of some of the worst hellholes in the world. He was a rough man with few attachments and only one purpose. When someone somewhere pushed the panic button, Harmon was what showed up. He had decided to meet the asset in Hong Kong. It made more sense than Shangh.. | Brad Thor | ||
| 9e9cf2d | He was close now. Way too close. Fuck, Harvath said to himself again. Even with subsonic ammo in his suppressed H&K, the 9mm pistol still made a lot of noise. It would sound even louder this close to the house. Somebody was going to hear it. And whoever did was going to come to investigate. Fuck. | Brad Thor | ||
| c2a188e | CHAPTER 31 The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park stretched a hundred eighty-five miles from Georgetown | Brad Thor | ||
| f2dc9f0 | Germany's famed GSG9 counterterrorism unit and until a bullet injury to his leg | Brad Thor | ||
| cf5fa7c | From the front passenger seat, one of Yaqub's fighters produced a short-barreled shotgun. As soon as Harvath saw it come above the line of the dashboard, he yelled, "Gun!" and fired multiple rounds through the windshield, killing the man instantly. The ISI driver tried to unholster his weapon, but Sloane was already at his window and fired two shots at his head, shattering the glass and killing him. When the fighter in the backseat on the.. | Brad Thor | ||
| ac7ea76 | Colonel Jiang Shi hated politicians. Few possessed analytic minds. Fewer still understood the tenets of warfare. It was why he had wanted the politicians kept out of it. But the nine-member Politburo Standing Committee was the supreme decision-making body of the Chinese Communist Party. Nothing in China was done without their permission. Shi had been left with little choice, especially when his superiors secured an invitation from the Gene.. | Brad Thor | ||
| a1044c8 | He spoke in hushed Arabic as he kicked off his shoes and began unbuttoning his shirt. He had dropped it to the floor and was just unbuttoning his pants when he stepped into the bedroom and saw Anne Levy standing there. In her hands was a suppressed, Elite Dark SIG Sauer P226, the same weapon carried by a lot of Texas Rangers and Navy SEALs. It was pointed right at him. | Brad Thor | ||
| 8cc2b91 | Move or make a sound and you're going to the bottom of Dubai Creek. Understand me? | Brad Thor | ||
| 4f72f5d | Cowles sat next to him. Upon his lap was a soft, leather briefcase. Inside, his left hand was wrapped around the butt of a suppressed 9mm Springfield XD pistol. Harvath had made it perfectly clear that if Hanjour tried anything at all, Cowles would shoot him in the genitals or the stomach, neither of which was a good way to die | Brad Thor | ||
| da70210 | Harvath sat in a corner of the Cafe Hawelka. A suppressed Beretta rested beneath a newspaper in his lap. Art posters covered the faded walls. The place smelled like chocolate and stale cigarettes. Taking a final sip of his coffee, he stood and set the newspaper on the table. His target was sitting with another man, near the window. Both were in their early thirties. Neither looked up. Approaching the table, Harvath said only, "Paris." Then,.. | Brad Thor | ||
| dc573ae | Scot Harvath wasn't trying to hide. He expected to be seen. That was the plan. Be brief. Be bloody. Be gone. There would be handwringing by the Austrians, of course. But the politics of the assignment weren't his concern. The White House had been crystal clear. Either the Europeans dealt with their problem, or the United States would | Brad Thor | ||
| 79fc4e8 | back to the border with Belarus. Though he would have liked to have gotten some sleep, he kept his eyes open and his head on a swivel the entire way. When they met up with the Old Man's smugglers and said their good-byes, he thanked her. She had taken a lot of risks on his behalf and he wanted her to know how much he appreciated it. Without her, this could have very well turned into a suicide operation. Climbing into the smuggler's truck, h.. | Brad Thor | ||
| 3b21fc0 | That wasn't why he had accepted this job. He had accepted it because someone needed to be willing to stand up and do the right thing for the nation, no matter what the personal cost. | Brad Thor | ||
| 27859d0 | U.S. Navy SEAL Jack Carr (ret.) was once again incredibly helpful with details for this book. He also continues to be one hell of a thriller author. If you haven't checked out his books yet, do it. You'll love his writing. Thank you, Jack. | Brad Thor | ||
| 96bc809 | Accountability, as well as personal responsibility, had been chucked out the window of American government. It also had been abdicated by the American voter. As long as most Americans could have their McDonald's drive-throughs, listen to their iPods, and watch American Idol, they didn't seem to care how negligently the nation's national security apparatus was being run. Bread and circuses. The Romans had it right. As long as people had food.. | Brad Thor | ||
| b55bc79 | I believe power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. | power | Brad Thor | |
| 4325fd3 | Too true," said the little man with a laugh. "Thank you for coming." "Don't thank me. Thank the United States government. Which reminds me. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an--" "Are you actually Mirandizing me?" Harvath shrugged. "It's a service we provide everyone now." "Even suspected terrorists?" "You've been living in the mountains too long,.. | Brad Thor | ||
| 3443b0c | As Ben Franklin was alleged to have said, those who would trade a little liberty for a little security deserve neither and will lose both. | Brad Thor | ||
| f1fbc04 | The Chief made several more notes. "Any PTSD?" McGee shook his head. "The joke in our industry is that guys like Harvath don't get PTSD, they give it." | Brad Thor | ||
| c435197 | People weakened their hands by feeling they had to fill uncomfortable silences. | Brad Thor | ||
| e3f38a6 | The fundamentalism that drove them was a cancer. It infected almost everyone it touched. And yet the people best positioned to remove the cancer lacked the courage and the desire to do so. No matter how many atrocities were committed in the name of their religion and their God, the Muslim world was wholly incapable of combating the problem. | Brad Thor | ||
| 3778275 | The Russians wanted to enjoy the peace and prosperity of a civilized world, without the encumbrances of following any of its laws. | Brad Thor | ||
| 3ee59a0 | Speed, surprise, and overwhelming violence of action. | Brad Thor | ||
| 8ea97a3 | I realized that you don't try on a pair of pants, fart in them, and then put them back on the shelf, and the same rough politeness applied here, too. Plain and simple, I bled on it, I bought it. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| f1c495d | In the Anthropologie mirror, I saw wrinkles, dents, flaps, bumps, and something that caused me to say to myself, "I hope that's a tumor and not a horn." | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 10efca8 | Let me tell you about Tidy. She's smug, self-important, and frankly, just an asshole. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 84bb044 | Other than that, employ this rule: A book gets fifty pages. If you aren't dying to get back to it the next day, move on over to the next one. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 17afb2b | Frankly, if I walk into your house and you don't have two hundred books somewhere that you haven't read yet, I don't trust you. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 390c4e8 | I'm telling you, every house with filthy windows has a pervert inside. Animals. Dirty minds have dirty windows. Everyone knows that. But I wouldn't worry about the Super Rapist if I were you, especially if he gets a good look at you from behind. I'd say you were probably pretty far down on his list." As" | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 34384d4 | Oh my God," my husband said with a gasp, reading further. "He beat three men into unconsciousness? Alone? What is this, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Rapist? Does he fly and run across treetops? How long are his nails? What do you think his record for man beating is? Do we need four guys in the house at all times? Do we need five? You know, I could start a band and we could practice here." | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 45c8660 | Denis Waitley says it best: "It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not." | Jen Hemphill |