Quotes from Vince Flynn

People with good lives are hesitant to jeopardize them. People who have nothing, on the other hand, are often no better than wild animals." She nodded and took

The public never saw how producers and executives juiced up stories. Exaggerating some details and downplaying or ignoring others. How they went after something or someone, not based on how strong or important the story was, but what their ratings books told them.

his gutsy decision

He apparently wasn't wearing a seat belt and the part of his brain you'd want to communicate with is still on the inside of the windshield.

There was no innovation, no plan for the future, no attempt to meaningfully engage the West. Only the occasional flexing of military muscle to stir the people's nationalism and blind them to the fact that they had no more hope now than they did under the communists.

I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.

People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)

I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp

Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.

People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

just let Mitch be Mitch

I don't want to hear another word about my attitude. i don't want anyone looking over my shoulder, and I sure as hell don't want anyone second-guessing what I do. (Mitch Rapp)

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Mitch Rapp)

I don't need men like Ross on my side. I just need them to get out of my way. (Mitch Rapp)

No offence Mitch, but you look like s*****." "I feel like s****

We're all dying, just some of us sooner than others.