Harm's Way Quotes

“like an unwanted cur.”
― James Bassett, Harm's Way

“Bandit One”
― James Bassett, Harm's Way

“plunging into twenty thousand fathoms”
― James Bassett, Harm's Way

“pondering John Paul Jones’ nautical appeal when they reached the quarterdeck. Old Swayback was a singularly inappropriate vessel in which to hang such a motto,”
― James Bassett, Harm's Way

“automatic pistol”
― James Bassett, Harm's Way

“Something the Duke of Wellington once wrote to a nagging War Secretary popped into his head: “My lord, if I attempted to answer the mass of futile correspondence that surrounds me, I should be debarred from all serious business of campaigning.” Then the doughty general had concluded with more asperity than tact: “So long as I retain an independent position, I shall see that no officer under my command is debarred by attending to the futile driveling of mere quill driving in Your Lordship’s office — from attending to his first duty — which is, and always has been, so to train the private men under his command that they may, without question, beat any force opposed to them”
― James Bassett, Harm's Way

“the difference between a halo and a noose is only twelve inches.”
― James Bassett, Harm's Way

“Twenty-nine thousand yards,” he said with reluctant professional admiration in his tone. “And goddamn big splashes,” Tuthill added “— from eighteen-inch rifles.” “Yamato!” Torrey shrugged philosophically. “We’ve drawn the jackpot, Tut.”
― James Bassett, Harm's Way

“They watched him depart, silently, and with a peculiar dignity. But his ramrod back seemed bowed for the first time from weariness that came more from the spirit than from his overtaxed physique. Nobody spoke for a moment after the blackout curtains dropped into place. Then Tuthill said slowly, “There, my friends, goes a man!”
― James Bassett, Harm's Way