Shadow of Doubt Quotes

“And that’s what continues to get me—the angrier people are, the more they are susceptible to malign foreign influence.”
― Brad Thor, Shadow of Doubt

“Thriller author Leon Uris based his 1967 novel Topaz on a fictionalized”
― Brad Thor, Shadow of Doubt

“Ex-CIA analyst and thriller author David McCloskey is not only a terrific writer (Damascus Station, Moscow X, The Seventh Floor), he’s also an all-around great guy and helped me with some CIA-”
― Brad Thor, Shadow of Doubt

“It was one thing to not ask the members of your team to do anything you yourself wouldn’t do. That was called leadership. It was something else entirely to never ask them to do the hard things because you were too busy doing them yourself.”
― Brad Thor, Shadow of Doubt

“any rules regarding their nuclear weapons. “Put aside for a moment what belligerents like North Korea and Iran are taking away from this. Think about what China is learning. Any calculation they’re making about an invasion of Taiwan now includes consideration of how long NATO took to respond to Ukraine. Not only was NATO slow out of the blocks, but it was also slow to escalate the types of munitions and equipment being sent, all out of fear that Russia ‘might’ resort to the use of nuclear weapons. “We are now in an era where our previous norms have been shattered. Perhaps irreparably so. The one consistent throughline, however is Peshkov. He doesn’t hide his intentions. He tells the world what he is going to do, and then he does it, whether that’s ‘liberating’ the Donbas and the Crimean Peninsula, or his full-on invasion of Ukraine.”
― Brad Thor, Shadow of Doubt

“Those had been the days. Life had been so new, so exciting. There was a carefreeness to that era. No cell phones. No computers. No email. You really could disconnect and disappear. People didn’t expect to be able to reach you instantly, day or night.”
― Brad Thor, Shadow of Doubt

“Glencairn glass”
― Brad Thor, Shadow of Doubt

“them”
― Brad Thor, Shadow of Doubt

“It was one thing to not ask the members of your team to do anything you yourself wouldn’t do. That was called leadership. It was something else entirely to never ask them to do the hard things because you were too busy doing them yourself. Not allowing people to undertake difficult tasks was not only selfish, but also robbed them of the opportunity to better themselves. Trusting people to perform to the best of their ability, and then letting them do so, was likewise part of leadership.”
― Brad Thor, Shadow of Doubt

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. —OSCAR WILDE”
― Brad Thor, Shadow of Doubt

“Things only slowed down if you applied your own brakes and took control of the precious short time allotted to you in life.”
― Brad Thor, Shadow of Doubt

“Not allowing people to undertake difficult tasks was not only selfish, but also robbed them of the opportunity to better themselves. Trusting people to perform to the best of their ability, and then letting them do so, was likewise part of leadership.”
― Brad Thor, Shadow of Doubt

“One of his repeated truisms was that the mind was like a parachute: it had to be open to work.”
― Brad Thor, Shadow of Doubt

“The only lens through which she viewed politics was “will the issue in question serve the interests of the American people and make the country better?” That was it. Plain and simple.”
― Brad Thor, Shadow of Doubt

“You didn’t teach them their craft, you helped them perfect it.”
― Brad Thor, Shadow of Doubt