Cry Havoc Quotes

“Ho Chi Minh is willing to sacrifice a generation. Is America?”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“America is going to destroy this country in order to save it. Saigon is for sale”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“When you are in the jungle what does it smell like?” she asked. Tom took a moment to answer. “Depends. Decay mostly.” “That’s what I smell here”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“Do you know what they call the war in the North? Dau Tranh Vu Trang”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“Stop framing this conflict in terms of victory. Your countrymen see victory through the lens of VE Day and parades from the Second World War. What you are really doing in Vietnam is avoiding defeat”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“What do you suggest we do?” “Ah”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“Your press is complicit in this story”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“We may never know exactly what happened”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“cartoon”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“If we had infiltrated the press as part of an overall strategy for how to frame Tet in the eyes of the American people”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“We can capitalize on the situation. Regardless of what happens in the rest of the country”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“More powerful than AKs and SKSs are photographs and videos transmitted into living rooms across the United States subjectively interpreted by journalists who need to beat their competitors in ratings. While it looks like this will be a tactical victory for the U.S.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“Our sources tell us that most of the American and international press rarely leave Saigon”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“The American occupiers were no better than the French colonizers and no better than the Nazis that had plagued his native France. One day they too would be defeated. When the Americans left—and they would”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“You can’t control the wind”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“couple ounces of gin and fresh orange juice over ice. Half a lime.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“Special Operations Group’s Vietnamese naval surface forces—instructed and advised by U.S. Navy SEALs—boldly raided North Vietnam’s coast and won surface victories against the North Vietnamese Navy, while indigenous agent teams penetrated the very heartland of North Vietnam.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“Tom to assist in the operations department of Command and Control North, located on the coast in Da Nang next to Marble Mountain”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“Keep in mind that these are all initial reports, and as with any initial reports some information is bound to change.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“How many Americans are you willing to sacrifice?”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“Do you know what they call the war in the North? Dau Tranh Vu Trang, ‘the violence struggle,’ struggle being the key word. It comes down to how many Americans you are willing to sacrifice before you lose Vietnam.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“Won’t it be hard to leave this?” Serrano asked, gesturing to the view. “Yes, but life is about change, and business is about adaptability.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“If you are going to survive in this world you are going to have to be more attentive.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“Lansdale understood the power of psychological operations.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“LaGana Tactical Tomahawk.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“This was an officer who truly cared for the men he led.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“You will try to end your life, but the guards will not allow it. They will keep you alive in an endless cycle of darkness, cold, and toil.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“Just know that if you betray my trust, you will find yourself in the gulag, in Siberia, and you will be worked until you are too weak to move.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“The women of that generation were something else. Went right from the Great Depression into World War Two.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller

“Move, stop, listen.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller