Dead Zero Quotes

“These in the day when heaven was falling, when earth’s foundations fled, followed their mercenary calling, took their wages and are dead.”
― Stephen Hunter, Dead Zero

“Okay,” he said, “I’m going in.” He turned to Swagger. “Sorry, old guy. A world where she dies so I can survive isn’t a world I choose to live in.”
― Stephen Hunter, Dead Zero

“Some are born jerks” she said, “some have jerkhood thrust upon them, and some mature into rich and vibrant jerks. You are all three.”
― Stephen Hunter, Dead Zero

“That’s it. Look, I want to put a Hellfire blast-and-frag from a drone into those guys before they get much closer or before they separate too far for one strike. You’ve got a Reaper floating somewhere in the area?” “Sir, I have to advise negative on the request. Sorry about your kid, but our directive is only to strike ID’d targets and then only with Langley clearance. I just can’t do it.”
― Stephen Hunter, Dead Zero

“Ray, I shouldn’t tell you this,” Colonel Laidlaw said, “but it’s your ass on the line, so you have a right to know. The Administration has tightened up on the missile hits. Too much collateral. The UN squawking. This guy’s complex is in heavy urban. You go all Hellfire on his ass, yes, you probably send him to his God. But you send two hundred other rug weavers along with him and you’ve got the New York Times violin section in full blast. These folks don’t like that.”
― Stephen Hunter, Dead Zero

“He had a mop of unkempt hair dark as any wine-dark sea; a vague sense of coffeehouse revolutionary to him; and quick, furtive eyes that missed little. He was one of those uncomfortably intense men most people find a little unnerving, as if his rhythms were a little too rapid, or perhaps he was too quickly wired through synapse, or bore too many unforgivable grudges, or was too quick to haggle to the death over a nickel.”
― Stephen Hunter, Dead Zero

“Last know address “c/o Black Cat Cafe, Kabul,” evidently the spot where the mercs hung and drank and looked for odd pickups from the town’s many intelligence shops.”
― Stephen Hunter, Dead Zero

“on the right freak,”
― Stephen Hunter, Dead Zero

“The suspense was murder. S-2’s IT set up the satellite feed with the usual contempt that ITs have for the technically illiterate,”
― Stephen Hunter, Dead Zero

“Surely, God has cursed the disbelievers
And has prepared for them a Flaming Fire
Where they will abide forever.” —Koran 72:”
― Stephen Hunter, Dead Zero

“As I say, after action, you are so gone no one will ever know you existed.”
― Stephen Hunter, Dead Zero

“Soldiers could no longer die in the thousands, much less the hundreds.”
― Stephen Hunter, Dead Zero