Quotes from Brad Thor

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

Il est impossible d'apprécier la lumière sans connaître les ténèbres. It is impossible to appreciate the light without knowing the darkness.

Wells, though, had never touched her. It would have been like mixing alcohol and firearms. Guaranteed to be a lot of fun, right up until it wasn't.

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 in his feeds. That's it.

Harvath shrugged as his phone chimed. "That's social media for you. There's a reason the intelligence community loves it so much.

Wherever books are burned, ultimately people are also burned.

Kill with a borrowed knife.

When President Rutledge had decided to mount the Apex Project to battle terrorists on their own terms, he wooed Gary away from the Bureau to put him in charge.

Evil arrives faster than it departs.

We have a saying in India. Don't curse God for creating the tiger. Rather, be grateful that God didn't give it wings.

People chatted on cell phones and pecked away at keyboards. They had buds in their ears and listened to music or watched videos on their devices. Whatever happened to a cup of coffee and a newspaper? Hell, he thought, whatever happened to newspapers?

The base makes the case. What they want goes. As French politician Ledru-Rollin once said, "There go the people.

Life is short. Love who you are. Love what you do. Make every day count.

As the old saying went: People sleep peacefully in their beds only because rough men—and women, she was known to add—stand ready to do violence on their behalf. The two skills most necessary for a nation state to survive were its ability to keep secrets and covertly project force. Lose either ability and your country was doomed.

Religions were supposed to represent tolerance. But just like everything else in life, Harvarth had learned, it wasn't necessarily the philosophy that was flawed, but rather the human beings who were trying to interpret it.

Considering

the days are long and the years are short.

Those who would trade a little liberty for a little security deserved neither and would lose both. The

What do you think? Typhoid Mohammeds? Could the Saudis actually be part of this whole thing?

Swamp creatures prefer to work with their own.

Her parties were some of the best in China. Celebrities, drugs, beautiful women—they had everything. And it was those parties that had propelled her into the circles of China's rich and powerful.

You can't always control the situation you find yourself in, but you can control how you react to it.

Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

U.S. Navy SEAL Jack Carr (ret.) was once again incredibly helpful with details for this book. He also continues to be one hell of a thriller author. If you haven't checked out his books yet, do it. You'll love his writing. Thank you, Jack.