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.
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...
What’s this bit in Chinese that keeps popping up? he said. Xuĕ Lóng? It’s the codename for the operation. What does it mean? Xuĕ Lóng is a mythical Chinese creature said to bring darkness, cold, and d...
Their time was short, so Morrell spoke quickly. It is the stated policy of the United States government never to negotiate with terrorists. We all know it’s the nation’s first and most important comma...
The best kind of nation was one where the government feared the people. When the government feared the people there was liberty. When the people feared the government, there was tyranny.
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.
PC or not, Middle Eastern groups, including Abu Nidal’s, are not tacticians. They walk into nightclubs strapped with explosives, plant car bombs, spray crowded markets with machine-gun fire, and fly h...
None of the sheep ever wanted a sheepdog around until one of them spotted a wolf. By then, it was often too late.
In America, only opportunity is assured, not outcomes. Anyone who promises otherwise is acting contrary to the values upon which our Republic was founded.
Benjamin Franklin, that those who trade some of their liberty for a little temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. The wisdom of the founders never ceased to amaze him.
As a living organism, the Federal Government’s number one job was self-preservation. Any threat to its existence had to be dealt with.
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 bas...
Hunt you down and kill you myself. Chapter 18 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA The call from Philippe Roussard’s handler came in the middle of the night. Do you have everything in place? Roussard sat up in bed
The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn’t win by thinking inside the box and following someone else’s rules....
Hegelian dialectic—a psychological tool used to manipulate the masses. In this case, you create a problem, wait for the reaction, and then offer the solution. What people historically fail to realize,...
The funny thing about believing you can do no wrong is that you quickly begin doing nothing but wrong.