Total Power Quotes

“Ryan Steck lends me his unflagging passion and unparalleled knowledge of the Rappverse.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“he was actually a key person in Halabi’s orbit. His educational background is in physics but he seems to be knowledgeable in pretty much anything relating to technology.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“The most terrifying thing about writing this book was how little I had to make up. Between actual historical power outages, government assessments of power grid vulnerabilities, and official estimates of the casualties that a long-term outage would generate, much of the book wrote itself. Having said that, things like the details of how attacks would best be carried out and specific locations of critical infrastructure have been purposely obscured or fictionalized.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“We called the CEO of Apple to see if there was anything they could do to help us. We expected him to say no like usual, but that didn’t happen. It turns out that when they’re losing a billion dollars a day and thinking they might starve to death, they suddenly remember the back door they built into their encryption.” “You’ve got to be kidding.” “Nope. Took ’em less than five minutes.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“These people were complete fucking idiots. And worse, they were complete fucking idiots who thought they were geniuses. The most dangerous kind, but just the kind the American people loved to vote for.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“We called the CEO of Apple to see if there was anything they could do to help us. We expected him to say no like usual, but that didn’t happen. It turns out that when they’re losing a billion dollars a day and thinking they might starve to death, they suddenly remember the back door they built into their encryption.”
― Vince Flynn, Total Power

“You might be able to stage out of Alaska and Hawaii,” Burton said. “They’re on different grids and probably wouldn’t be hit.”
― Vince Flynn, Total Power

“ELIZABETH Dawson stepped on a dry branch,”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“It turned out the international language wasn’t love—it was fear.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“You told us not to carry any.” “So, no phones. No smart watches. No radios. Nothing that has an electrical charge or battery.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“Feisal Ibrahim, the tech expert he’d met before. The one who had helped him dispose of his former boss’s body.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“That CIA bitch had an almost supernatural ability to ask the right questions.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“was just after 10 p.m. and John Alton had been driving a mix of”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“Claudia Gould’s native French but Anna’s answer was in English. It had become a battle of wills between her and her mother.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“WEST OF MANASSAS VIRGINIA USA”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“FAIRFAX STATION VIRGINIA USA”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“I JUST texted you the address,” John Alton said. “Key’s under the mat.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“SOUTHEASTERN OHIO USA”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“He had just entered the last month of his presidency and was looking very forward to that month ending.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“But it was Joshua Alexander who began striding toward him.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“the chairman of the Joint Chiefs; and a wild card he hadn’t seen in years—TJ Burton, the head of FEMA.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“her counterpart at the FBI, Darren Phillips; James Templeton,”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“faces were familiar: CIA director Irene Kennedy, who had recruited him as a kid;”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“MITCH Rapp gave a quick knock on the Oval Office door and then entered.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, DC USA”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“meeting the enigmatic PowerStation there tomorrow morning.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“Agency’s monitoring of ISIS communications, Muhammad Nahas and his replacement technology expert”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“But they were masters of the mind game.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“A slippery bunch, the fairer sex. On a grand scale, they couldn’t get much done.”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power

“CENTERVILLE VIRGINIA USA”
― Kyle Mills, Total Power