Hunting Four Horsemen Quotes

“The lake’s name came from the substance natron, a naturally occurring combination of soda ash and baking soda. Lake”
― Jim Geraghty, Hunting Four Horsemen : A Dangerous Clique Novel

“Lake Natron.”
― Jim Geraghty, Hunting Four Horsemen : A Dangerous Clique Novel

“pangolins”
― Jim Geraghty, Hunting Four Horsemen : A Dangerous Clique Novel

“He and other scientists—Schrader, Otto Ambros, Gerhard Ritter, and Hans-Jürgen von der Linde—realized they had created one of the most effective poisons to ever taint the earth, and named it after an acronym of their initials—S for Schrader, A for Ambros, R for Ritter, and IN from der Linde. Today the poison was known as “sarin.”
― Jim Geraghty, Hunting Four Horsemen : A Dangerous Clique Novel

“Modern visitors were often surprised to learn that the names and ages of the children were changed, three children were deleted from the story, and that “Edelweiss” was not a traditional Austrian folk song but was written by Rodgers and Hammerstein in 1959. Those who consulted a map would ask how landlocked Austria had a navy and learn that the real-life Georg von Trapp had been a World War I submarine captain in the navy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which controlled the port city Trieste (now part of Italy) and the Slovenian and Croatian coasts. Tourists would also learn that escaping Nazi-dominated Austria by hiking to Switzerland is not an option, as the border is roughly two hundred miles away. In fact, locals chuckled at the film’s closing scene, as the family is depicted hiking in the direction toward Germany and the Kehlsteinhaus, known to Americans and the British as Hitler’s “Eagle’s Nest.”
― Jim Geraghty, Hunting Four Horsemen : A Dangerous Clique Novel

“She wanted to spend money they didn’t have, to try ideas that had never worked, to solve problems that hadn’t manifested yet.”
― Jim Geraghty, Hunting Four Horsemen : A Dangerous Clique Novel

“They wanted to tear up our social fabric, and leave us scared, angry, Balkanized—a nation of suspicious little enclaves, always seeing the worst in each other, and unwilling to take the risk of helping each other. It”
― Jim Geraghty, Hunting Four Horsemen : A Dangerous Clique Novel

“Knowledge is only power when it is applied,” Pittman replied curtly. “The Great Plague of Athens in 430 B.C. killed a hundred thousand people and began the process of ending the era of Athenian democracy. Thucydides wrote about how people ignored warnings and made the outbreak worse. They clung to whatever explanation reassured them the most, despite the evidence before their eyes. And once it was too late, when people could finally see the scale of the threat they faced—well, as Thucydides wrote, ‘for the violence of the calamity was such that men, not knowing where to turn, grew reckless of all law, human and divine … Men who had hitherto concealed what they took pleasure in, now grew bolder.’ The greatest democracy of its era collapsed when everyone felt they no longer had much to lose, or a future to plan for. Science cannot produce a vaccine against hedonistic nihilism.”
― Jim Geraghty, Hunting Four Horsemen : A Dangerous Clique Novel

“Others said this was a sign the Glorious Revolution had born bitter fruit. We had become accustomed to lies, blind loyalty, too obsessed with appearing strong to openly discuss our weaknesses.”
― Jim Geraghty, Hunting Four Horsemen : A Dangerous Clique Novel