The Lions of Lucerne Quotes

“I know my limits. You don’t ever need to worry about me.” “Thanks, Scot. I’ll remind myself of that next time I see you looking like a flipped turtle.”
― Brad Thor, The Lions of Lucerne

“Snyder had scaled the rocky heights of the American political landscape by adhering to a simple mantra: Do unto others before they do unto you.”
― Brad Thor, The Lions of Lucerne

“PC or not, Middle Eastern groups, including Abu Nidal’s, are not tacticians. They walk into nightclubs strapped with explosives, plant car bombs, spray crowded markets with machine-gun fire, and fly hijacked planes full of fuel into buildings. Plain and simple, they’re cowards. They won’t confront anyone on a one-to-one basis. They don’t have the savvy or the courage to do in-your-face operations.”
― Brad Thor, The Lions of Lucerne

“There was a lot to be said for a collective effort, but when that effort was not quickly coordinated and executed, nine out of ten times it ended in disaster.”
― Brad Thor, The Lions of Lucerne

“They would need someone to blame. It was part of the pathological makeup of politicians.”
― Brad Thor, The Lions of Lucerne

“Fortes Fortuna Adjuvat. Fortune favors the brave.”
― Brad Thor, The Lions of Lucerne

“The only easy day was yesterday,”
― Brad Thor, The Lions of Lucerne

“You know where the term severance pay comes from, Scot?” said Longo as he hung the clipboard on a peg inside the cabinet and locked it again. “No, but you’re going to tell me, right?” Ignoring Harvath’s sarcasm, Longo continued. “It’s also from England. When prisoners were going to be beheaded, they offered the axeman a little extra money to make sure he chopped their heads off with one, clean blow.”
― Brad Thor, The Lions of Lucerne

“married to King Henry” was an inside joke”
― Brad Thor, The Lions of Lucerne

“On vacation, people were so willing to give strangers personal information that they never would at home: names, addresses, phone numbers . . . it was a phenomenon unique to traveling. As”
― Brad Thor, The Lions of Lucerne

“Vin de Constance”
― Brad Thor, The Lions of Lucerne