Quotes from David Baldacci

As had been the case with Gray, most snipers aimed for the brain as the gold standard of all possible killing shots. Sure, you pack the right ordnance and a torso hit would also likely be fatal, but the head shot was like a faithful dog in a professional killer's world because it just never let you down.

Sometimes the truth does hurt, Jimmy. But I'll take the truth over speculation and just plain wrong information any day. Once you accept anything less than that, the whole world goes to Hell.

eighty pounds; hardly any of it was fat. Most people looking only

Grand master of memory? What did she have to do?" "Three tasks. The first was to memorize one thousand random numbers in an hour. Next, she had to memorize the order of ten decks of cards in an hour. And lastly, memorize the order of one deck of cards in under two minutes.

fifteen major intelligence agencies eating up 50 billion in budget dollars a year spread over 120,000 employees

DB. What finally got

vacant at first light. Yet she carried

Archer there was room for him if he didn't mind sharing a table. "Works for me," Archer said amiably. He was led to a table that was nestled right next to the stage, where a man in his fifties sat.

The Iraqi army and the security forces are simply not ready.

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE DAN KIRKSEN OPENED THE WASHINGTON POST AND started to take a sip of his orange juice. It never reached his mouth. Gavin had managed to file a story on the Sullivan case consisting chiefly of the information that Jack Graham, newly ordained partner at Patton

He (John Puller) wanted to intimidate. Intimidated people with a guilty conscience often made mistakes.

In the legal arena, she could go anywhere. The trouble

Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" "Probably. Why?" "Just wanted confirmation.

However, Pine knew that narcissism was probably one of the most dangerous traits someone could possess for one critical reason: The narcissist could not feel empathy toward others. Which meant that the lives of others held no value to a narcissist. Killing could even be like a hit of fentanyl: instant euphoria from the domination and destruction of another.

I've seen enough in this world to know that two people who can make each other that miserable must love each other a lot.

Eleanor, love is like a good piece of wood: It just gets stronger and stronger as the years go by.

were rabid, foaming bats blindly cleaving the air around his head. And it seemed that every few steps he would run straight into a twister of mosquitoes. Though he had been paid a large amount of cash up front, he was seriously considering increasing his daily fee on this one.

to bring him back, alive rather than dead." Puller kept his mouth shut. "I want to know what you've found out

For Tom the vision of Agnes Joe crammed inside the cockpit of a two-seater Cessna, her hammy fingers curled around the yoke, her enormous feet on the rudder pedals, wavered right on hallucinatory.

one last look around and

I mean present the best case possible using whatever facts or near facts are handy.

Doch im Augenblick, in dieser Minute, wohnte dem Ort unleugbar eine schlichte, tief sitzende Schönheit inne.

Hell no. Anybody sues me I ain't got no money. See, that's the poor person's best insurance policy: no assets.

Why can´t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?