Call to Arms (Blood on the Stars, #2)

by Jay Allan

Barron tended not to speak the language of diplomats, a dialect he typically referred to as “bullshit,”

People prospered, or they starved. Jobs were plentiful, or they were rare. Borders were defended, or they fell. But whatever else was happening, at least until the very end, it was a dead certainty the politicians lived in comfort.

“We all have the capacity to face more than we think we can, but we don’t realize it until the need is upon us. Then, later, when the danger has passed, we wonder how we did what we did.”