Back Blast Quotes

“You can run, but if you can’t run anymore, then you can hide. You can hide, but if you can’t hide anymore, then you can fight. There is nothing after the fight, so you fight until there is nothing.”
― Mark Greaney, Back Blast

“Hanley shook her hand, and she could see on his face that he recognized he’d just paid dollars to someone ready to accept dimes.”
― Mark Greaney, Back Blast

“A big, silent source, with a very limited number of specific items available, pre-stocked by the supplier, and she had to push just the right buttons to get anything out.”
― Mark Greaney, Back Blast

“He’d compartmentalize the pain and keep going.”
― Mark Greaney, Back Blast

“the middle-aged woman following him. Catherine backed off with a pleasant “Good night, Mr. Mayes.” She received no reply. — Andy and Catherine found each other in the crazed lights of the crime scene a minute later. Andy wore an expression of frustration. “I didn’t get a thing out of her.” Catherine smiled, satisfied. “I struck out, too, but I”
― Mark Greaney, Back Blast

“regurgitated information or uninformed conjecture, he switched off the news and began flipping through the entertainment channels.”
― Mark Greaney, Back Blast

“transformed into a multilayered story of international intrigue and government cover-up. No one knew what was true, but these were journalists; so the knowledge that they had to find the answers quickly”
― Mark Greaney, Back Blast

“Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN”
― Mark Greaney, Back Blast

“Suck it up or you’ll fuck it up.”
― Mark Greaney, Back Blast

“We were younger, at least. I romanticize my youth, regardless of how I might have misspent it.”
― Mark Greaney, Back Blast

“heard it in Maurice’s gravelly voice. “You can run, but if you can’t run anymore, then you can hide. You can hide, but if you can’t hide anymore, then you can fight. There is nothing after the fight, so you fight until there is nothing.”
― Mark Greaney, Back Blast

“Court knew. Maurice had said one line to him when Court found himself wallowing in his own misery and unable to complete his objective. “Suck it up or you’ll fuck it up.” Court”
― Mark Greaney, Back Blast

“or”
― Mark Greaney, Back Blast

“the greatest dangers to the institution are already inside the gates.”
― Mark Greaney, Back Blast

“confident”
― Mark Greaney, Back Blast

“He reached for the weapon on his right hip. It was a Ruger Mark 2 Amphibian, a stainless steel .22 caliber rim fire pistol with an integral suppressor. But”
― Mark Greaney, Back Blast