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 Le...
He carried no electronics. No laptop, no cell phone, no walkie-talkie. He carried no ID. Beside his large-caliber Glock, spare magazines, and a knife, there was nothing on his person that could connec...
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 w...
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 thro...
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...
My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being 'psycho.' That's because multiple things in my books have come true.
Yours, Rob, she replied. Damn it, Gretchen, he said. This is how it works. I can’t always give you all the information. Well you could have given us more. The statement hung in the air between them fo...
The only people who might hope to survive were those who had exercised some degree of caution and had prepared in advance.
Ockham’s razor. The simplest explanation was usually correct. They
My point is that bureaucrats—like everyone else—have a mind-set. The longer they work for government, the more they believe government is the answer, and the less they trust the everyday citizen. In f...
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,...
In the corner of the lobby was a registration desk. Harvath greeted the young man sitting behind it and gave him the
In Grossman’s mind, there were just three categories of human beings—sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves.
Harvath had met and worked with over his years in both the SEALs and the Secret Service. Harvath stood up and started moving toward the front of the cabin.
Germany’s famed GSG9 counterterrorism unit and until a bullet injury to his leg
Canada was the most patient invading force in the world—one penny at a time, one pop singer at a time, one actor at a time. … It might take them ten thousand years to conquer the United States, but th...
As the old saying goes, you can’t spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN.
1. Decrease current human population below five hundred million and keep it in perpetual balance with nature. 2. Guide reproduction wisely—improving fitness and diversity. 3. Unite humanity with a liv...
You ever work with a UN stabilization force? Ash asked. Harvath shook his head. Then trust me. As the old saying goes, you can’t spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN. The c...
You can’t always choose the situation you find yourself in, but you can choose how you react to it.