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.
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...
Aerotechnik Super Vivat Icarus motorgliders had an enormous wingspan and looked like a typical side-by-side pilot/passenger configuration sailplane that had been crossed with a small Cessna single-pro...
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 wi...
People who took themselves too seriously not only were no fun, but could also be very dangerous.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. —George Orwell
None of the sheep ever wanted a sheepdog around until one of them spotted a wolf. By then, it was often too late.
Nicholas is smart, though. He doesn’t push it directly at Vottari. He pushes it through other people Vottari knows and trusts on SnapChat, Instagram, et cetera. They repost it and it keeps showing up...
If there’s one lesson I’ve learned, it’s that life is all about change, and stress comes from avoiding change.
He had the three ingredients to happiness right in the palm of his hand and he knew it—something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.
Harvath sat in a corner of the Café 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. Tak...
Department of Homeland Security. Each one of them is mid- to upper-level management in their agencies.
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 tha...
Bismillah al rahman al Rahim, he replied. In the name of God, most Gracious, most Compassionate. Harvath knew the phrase. Every chapter in the Quran, except for the ninth, began with it. Ash-hadu an l...
Being happy boils down to three things. Something to do. Someone to love. And something to look forward to.
Al Qaeda didn’t translate to the base, as most Western media outlets had so ignorantly reported, but rather, the database. It referred to the original computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who...
Whoever had written it. Placing the crime scene photo of Claire Marcourt’s body with the other two pictures, he remarked, How about the local police, do they have any clues to go on? Witnesses? CCTV f...
Without someone to hunt the wolves, the sheep would never be safe. The wolves were multiplying too quickly. The sheepdogs were being overrun.