The Devil's Hand Quotes

“Carl was engrossed in the latest Brad Thor thriller and would glance up from time to time to observe the screens. Scott hit pause on his iPhone long enough to say hello. He was listening to a Joe Rogan podcast where the podcaster was somehow discussing psychedelic drugs and bow hunting with Cam Hanes in the same episode.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“Ismail had read of similar actions by the family of an American vice president; corruption and greed were not ailments relegated solely to the jungles of the developing world.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“One of the most striking proofs of the personal existence of Satan… is found in the fact, that he has so influenced the minds of multitudes in reference to his existence and doings, as to make them believe that he does not exist.” —WILLIAM RAMSEY”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“One of the most striking proofs of the personal existence of Satan is found in the fact, that he has so influenced the minds of multitudes in reference to his existence and doings, as to make them believe that he does not exist.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“the power of a free press. Its power was amplified when everyone had a voice. Theories without a foundation in facts or basis in reality could take flight and go viral. No barriers to entry. No editors. No fact checking, or if there was, it couldn’t be trusted; “fact checkers” had biases and agendas, too, after all. The loudest voices dominated the chaos that was social media hysteria, and all of it contributed to the chaos. Suppression and censorship only fueled the flames.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“Your country is on its knees, Commander. Your response to COVID surprised even our brightest minds. Close down your schools and businesses and destroy your economy for a virus with less than a 0.3 percent mortality rate? With that kind of a response, what would you do with a respiratory virus with a ninety percent mortality rate? I wanted to call the operation off; you were already doing such a good job destroying yourselves from within. All we needed to do was sit back and watch as COVID, race riots, and identity politics further divided an already weak nation; it’s just a matter of time.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“It doesn’t need a Che Guevara to raise a guerrilla army. The leaders have already been elected to state, local, and federal governments. Sympathizers have been infiltrated into our media establishment, entertainment industry, big tech, academia, even professional sports. Breitbart was right, ‘politics is downstream from culture.’ “You don’t need to take up arms in this war. Their weapons are hurled from social media platforms from which there is no defense and the assassinations are character assassinations. Public executions come not from a slice of the guillotine but by tweet, gleefully cheered on by the mob. You can fight it from your mom’s basement as you eat Cheetos and collect an unemployment check from the very government you seek to destroy. It doesn’t take courage, moral or physical, nor does it take resiliency. In fact, it takes the opposite of those once-lauded traits. It takes apathy. You don’t have to be creative, well-read, in shape, resourceful, or strong. The weaker your mind and body the better. You can be taken advantage of. You are ripe for recruitment. Racism is the witchcraft of the twenty-first century, and cancel culture is the stake at which you are burned.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“in a manner befitting the ideals we want to exemplify to the rest of the world. We now have twenty years of data to examine; it is imperative we weigh the results against the unintended consequences. Just because we’ve always done it one way doesn’t mean we will continue to do it that way. This briefing serves as much as an education for me as it does for all of us to study a decades-old program spanning what is now four administrations.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man.” —WILLIAM BLAKE, PROVERBS OF HELL”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“Our adversaries have observed us at the poker table for twenty years while having the benefit of seeing our cards. They have studied our tactics and seen our technologies evolve; they’ve observed our shifting goals and objectives. They have taken notes as we fought in Afghanistan”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“It’s over,” he whispered. “It’s over,” Reece repeated, his finger taking up slack on the trigger. “You know,” Thwaite said, a knowing smile slowly forming on his lips as he turned his head to Reece. “You won’t live through the year.” To Reece’s inquisitive look he continued: “I just killed the one person on earth who can call off a hit on you.” The senator’s smile broadened. Then he brought the revolver to the side of his head, closed his eyes, and blew his brains across the veranda.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“Hennessy Paradis Imperial”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“Never pay attention to the odds.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“Fuck you, Crimmins. I’m good. Just miss the ’Stan.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“Pulling onto I-225, he drove north before hitting I-70 West, passing the Bass Pro Shops and Safeway Distribution Center, the Nestlé Purina plant, and the Coliseum. He then merged onto I-25 South and drove by Coors Field, REI, the Aquarium, and the Children’s Museum, finally exiting the freeway and working his way to a house he’d purchased in Central West Denver near Paco Sanchez Park, in a neighborhood time had forgotten.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“You don’t have to like it, you just have to do it,”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“family of an American vice president;”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“Theories without a foundation in facts or basis in reality could take flight and go viral. No barriers to entry. No editors. No fact checking, or if there was, it couldn’t be trusted; “fact checkers” had biases and agendas, too, after all. The loudest voices dominated the chaos that was social media hysteria, and all of it contributed to the chaos. Suppression and censorship only fueled the flames.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“Racism is the witchcraft of the twenty-first century, and cancel culture is the stake at which you are burned.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“You are going to need some stiches.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“He jammed the sturdy flathead into the lower portion of the tack, pushing down on the tool”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“Good,” Ali said, still weary, as he entered the small kitchen.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“I think you are mixing your sports metaphors. I don't even play bowling.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“Dingell”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“All warfare is based on deception.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“We would be wise to remember that the Athenian historian Thucydides in the Melian Dialogue of his History of the Peloponnesian War characterizes hope as danger’s comforter.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“This is a novel of asymmetric warfare.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand

“power of a free press. Its power was amplified when everyone had a voice. Theories without a foundation in facts or basis in reality could take flight and go viral. No barriers to entry. No editors. No fact checking, or if there was, it couldn’t be trusted; “fact checkers” had biases and agendas, too, after all. The loudest voices dominated the chaos that was social media hysteria, and all of it contributed to the chaos. Suppression and censorship only fueled the flames.”
― Jack Carr, The Devil's Hand