In the Blood (Terminal List, #5)

by Jack Carr

Self-reliant men, capable of extreme violence in defense of their lives, their families, and of freedom makes some people nervous.

“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”

FOR BY WISE GUIDANCE YOU CAN WAGE YOUR WAR. —PROVERBS 24:6 AND FORMER MOTTO OF THE MOSSAD

What made a country? Borders, language, and culture. The Americans were doing away with all three.

The West believed they had won. It was that belief that allowed them to let down their guard, focus inward, find the wrongs in their society, and exploit and even exacerbate them for political gain. It was a myopic strategy. He had expected more of his Cold War rival. That they did not study or learn from their history did not bode well for their future. The death of the West. The USSR hadn’t needed ballistic missile submarines or a nuclear arsenal larger than the United States’. All they had needed to defeat the Americans was patience.

Death comes for us all. It’s nothing to be afraid of. It just is.

WAR WAS ALWAYS HERE. BEFORE MAN WAS, WAR WAITED FOR HIM. THE ULTIMATE TRADE AWAITING ITS ULTIMATE PRACTITIONER. —CORMAC McCARTHY, BLOOD MERIDIAN

As Reece’s finger pressed back on the trigger, he heard the immortal wisdom of Wyatt Earp: Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. In a gunfight you must learn to be slow in a hurry.

EVERYTHING COMES IN TIME TO HIM WHO KNOWS HOW TO WAIT. —LEO TOLSTOY, WAR AND PEACE

Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge. —Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince