Any Means Necessary Quotes

“He slammed the van door closed behind him and took a deep breath. The last thing he saw was the blue sky and bright sunlight of a warm June day.”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“He had no name. He had no family. He carried no identification. If he were fingerprinted, his prints would turn up in no criminal or military database that existed. He had a past, of course he did, but that hardly mattered now. He had broken from that past life, and then he had broken from the man who once led that life. Now he lived in a sort of eternal present. The present had its rewards”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“What are the charges?” Don said. “Where to even begin?” the man said. “Treason. Domestic terrorism. Murder. Kidnapping. Conspiracy. Those will do for a start.” They cut Luke’s wrists free. He massaged his wrists, getting the feeling back in them. “Some of those sound like death penalty offenses.” The Secret Service man nodded. “They are.” “My wife and son have been kidnapped. This man knows where they are.” Luke stared down at Don. “If I were you,” he said, “I’d start talking, and fast.”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“Two listening stations, one in Japan and one in Alaska, have reported that as many as half a dozen Russian missile silos in eastern Siberia have switched to a state of full combat readiness in the past twenty minutes. The silos have as primary targets major metropolitan areas along the West Coast, including Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco. They have acquired and locked on to their targets.” “Jesus. Why are they doing that?”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“I was a Delta Force operator on the ground in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, among other places. No one even knows we were in the Congo, you understand?” Brenna nodded. “I do. But that doesn’t mean I care, or that I even believe you.”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“Yeah. Call Ed Newsam and tell him to get dressed. I can’t have him lying around in bed at a time like this.”  “What will you be doing?” “Me? I’m going to save the Vice President—if it’s not already too late.”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“The man’s eyes went wide in shock. He made a gasping sound, then fell to the floor with a thud. His mouth was agape in a silent shriek. His hands were at his groin. His pants were staining with blood. She had hurt him. She had hurt him very”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“Was he really going to drive out to Mount Weather, now, after almost forty hours without sleep? Yes.”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“Everyone was represented here, everyone jockeying for position. It was alphabet soup. NYPD, FBI, NSA, ATF, DEP, even CIA. Hell, the DEA was here.”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“World Trade Center once stood.”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“Danish”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“The truck, also black, was much like the armored armored cars that banks used to transport money.”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“What do we got?”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“like giant pink meat wings.”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“But first, people need to believe you’ve matured and grown into a so-called fair and balanced, mainstream reporter.”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“We are traveling south to strike a blow that will give joy to the suffering masses throughout the world. We are going to enter the lair of the Devil himself and cut off the beast’s head with our own hands.”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“His sleep was poisoned by knowing too much.”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“Don’t bullshit me,” Ed said. “Classified or not, I know the story.” Luke had learned to live his life in air-tight compartments. He rarely talked about the forward fire base incident. It took place a lifetime before, in a corner of eastern Afghanistan so remote that just putting some troops on the ground there was supposed to mean something. It was ancient history. His wife didn’t even know about it. But Ed was Delta, so… okay. “Yeah,” he said. “I was there. Bad intelligence put us up there, and it turned into the worst night of my life.” He gestured at the two men on the floor. “It makes this look like an episode of Happy Days. We lost nine good men. Just before dawn, we ran out of ammo.” Luke shook his head. “It got ugly. Most of our guys were dead by then. And the three of us that made it… I don’t know if we ever really came back. Martinez is paralyzed from the waist down. Last I heard, Murphy is homeless, in and out of the VA psychiatric ward.”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“A N Y  M E A N S  N E C E S S A R Y     (A”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“The phone rang. Luke Stone lay somewhere between asleep and awake.”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“To Walt Brenna, a White on White attack was one where the government attacked itself. The Kennedy assassinations were examples of this. So was the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in 1981. Walt”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“With one final act of supreme self-discipline, Luke stepped back and gently pushed her hands away. “I’m”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“Luke started the car, put it in drive, and stomped on the gas pedal. The tires screeched as he peeled out of the driveway. “I’m listening,”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“balding man in his late 50s. He had a large round gut and pudgy little fingers. Luke knew his story. He was a desk jockey, a man who had come up through the government bureaucracy. On September 11, he was at Treasury running a team analyzing tax evasion and Ponzi schemes. He slid over to counter-terrorism when Homeland Security was created. He had”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“ethereal.”
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“every”
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“He looked like he couldn’t grow a beard if Allah himself depended on it. “We”
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“those Catholic miracles”
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“Eldrick didn’t know. He had passed out for a while. He was awake again, but everything seemed like a vague dream.”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary

“I did want it, and I still do. I want it because I want to make America great again.”
― Jack Mars, Any Means Necessary