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...
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. —JOHN F. KENNEDY
Speed, surprise, and overwhelming violence of action.
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...
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
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...
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.
Carlton signaled and merged into a faster-moving lane. Jacobson gave us his file with everything on the
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.
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.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. —EDMUND BURKE
The rain forests of the Congo Basin contained so much water that they caused their own weather system, and were known as the Lungs of Africa.
The first thing Harvath removed was a sand-colored, modified Palafox 9mm SIG Sauer P226 pistol. It had bright green TRUGLO Tritium/Fiber-Optic Day/Night sights that allowed for fast target acquisition...
Muslim students would go through a bunch of feel-good exercises and leave with the impression that without Islamic contributions to science, there would be no U.S. space program.
If there’s one lesson I’ve learned, it’s that life is all about change, and stress comes from avoiding change.