The Chaos Kind (John Rain, #11, Livia Lone, #5)

by Barry Eisler

The object of power is power. —George Orwell

Kiawah Island mansion

kissing up and kicking down.

Kiawah Island mansion.

Though the silence suddenly felt safer.

Because when order is your enemy, chaos is your friend.”

He knows all there is about how to make someone dead. Which makes him the person you want

most when it comes to keeping someone alive.”

‘Denial has no survival value.’

Don’t bring a lawbook to a gunfight.’”

Again, smart, but also again, the security came with complications.

everyone had their own shit, picked their own battles, and did their own cost-benefit ratios.

“The chaos kind.”

You could get the establishment media to print anything on background, and then quote it yourself later as proof of the need for whatever policy you were selling.

Really, it was the little things in life.