Quotes from Kyle Mills

Human nature can't be denied, sir. The world is so complex that the average person is no longer able to understand it. In the face of that, they can be counted on to retreat into tribalism. Nationalism. People need something to hate to reinforce their own identities. And it's the internal threats—the people they interact with every day—whom they hate and fear most.

That CIA bitch had an almost supernatural ability to ask the right questions.

from Elise Egan.

OVER THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS SOUTHERN SPAIN

SOUTHEASTERN OHIO USA

I JUST texted you the address," John Alton said. "Key's under the mat.

Sayid Halabi was rotting in the Somali desert thanks to Scott Coleman

WHEN the plane finally began to descend, Mitch Rapp turned to the window and examined the grid of runways and buildings

MADRID SPAIN

You play the percentages in this game. If you try to plan for every lightning strike and shark attack you just end up paralyzed.

the Madrid-Barajas airport.

Sonya Voronova leaned back in the kitchen chair and stared blankly at the computer screen.

These people were complete fucking idiots. And worse, they were complete fucking idiots who thought they were geniuses. The most dangerous kind, but just the kind the American people loved to vote for.

wondering if Allah really got personally involved in the butchering of children to secure a heroin production factory. When the day came, who would God be more angry with: men like him who acted with no regard to His will, or men like these who used Him to justify their own brutality and ambition?

I'm afraid optics are all that's left inside the Beltway

In truth, the natural state of humanity was chaos. The Americans had just managed to hold it at bay over most of their short history.

A LIGHT mist condensed on Sonya Vance's windshield, turning the forested mountains around her

For all its size and sophistication, even the American military was capable of little more than a lengthy string of elaborate failures.

through stinging eyes at the computer monitor. He was exhausted but the man on-screen didn't seem to be. He continued to dig through the rubble of the house above and had now been joined by his

but much of the elite team the ISIS leader had assembled was still on the loose.

seemed to be re-forming under the leadership of a former Iraqi army captain. He was no Sayid Halabi

The United States was as weak as it had been in human memory. Its people were unconcerned with anything but their own selfish needs and had turned their political system into just another source of cheap entertainment.

you were only as good as the people you surrounded yourself with.

he was tough as nails and motivated as hell.