Leviathan Wakes (Expanse, #1)

by James S.A. Corey

“Don’t be afraid of them. Their only power is your fear.” “Well, that and a hundred or so gunships,” Havelock said. “From what I hear,” Miller said, “if you clap your hands and say you believe, they can’t shoot you.”

“Look, you’re the big dog here. Even if I didn’t know who you used to be, you’d scare the shit out of me, so don’t feel the need to prove it. But no matter how scared I am, I’m not backing down on this.”

You have my permission to now shut up about that.”

A man born with a sense for raw opportunity where his soul should have been.

“Offer Holden his weight in gold and he’ll just be offended you tried to bribe him.”