Total Power (Mitch Rapp, #19)

by Kyle Mills

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.

The American people couldn’t buy thousand-dollar cell phones and big-screen TVs fast enough. What was it about politicians that made them behave like everyone in the United States was half starved? Had they not noticed how fat people were?

Humans really were just monkeys throwing feces. They’d grandstand for a while and then make a few backroom deals that led to absolutely no action at all.

You could bring a human to water, but you couldn’t make him drink. The unfairly maligned horses that were the subject of the original proverb, on the other hand, were smart enough to know a good thing when they saw it.

“Let’s cut through this crap, okay? If God wanted America destroyed, he’d do it himself. Do you really think the entity that created biology and black holes sits around worrying about your facial hair and whether or not you eat hot dogs?

“Williamson makes superefficient solar collectors designed to blend into the environment. Most of them look like roof tiles and wood siding, but they also make ones that look like rocks so you can put them in your yard. They’re still superexpensive so not many people have them yet,