Alexander King Thriller #1-3 Quotes

“He knew not every American appreciated what he and his fellow servicemen and women did, but the ones who did care were the only ones who mattered. And though he’d lost another friend, he knew that in the grand scheme of things, Mary was willing to sacrifice her life if it meant justice would prevail in the end.”
― Bradley Wright, Alexander King Thriller #1-3

“All a man could do when he faced the worst humans alive and lived to tell about it was continue to fight through the sadness. Somebody had to do it, and he felt fortunate that he was one of the few who could make a difference. No matter how small, or large, that difference seemed.”
― Bradley Wright, Alexander King Thriller #1-3

“Sometimes knowing your surroundings was as helpful to winning a battle as anything else. And there was no place he knew better than his own home.”
― Bradley Wright, Alexander King Thriller #1-3

“Maybe me killing you is playing God, Saajid, and maybe it’s not. But make no mistake, we are not the same.”
― Bradley Wright, Alexander King Thriller #1-3

“It was a question King had asked himself at least a thousand times, and one to which he never had an answer, because maybe there was no difference at all. But he knew one thing for sure: in the end, he and Saajid Hammoud were nowhere near the same person.”
― Bradley Wright, Alexander King Thriller #1-3

“to be so righteous, need to be cleansed from the earth, to make way for the true people of God. Saajid told Husaam that day what he still thought about the men who were willfully dying today in these cleanses in the US, that they will be rewarded for showing the world that things, and beliefs, must change. And in order for there to be change, there must be a cleansing.”
― Bradley Wright, Alexander King Thriller #1-3

“Do you think taking other people’s lives is the right way to go about spreading the word of our god?” This question had always stuck out to Saajid because he had asked his father the same question, the morning of the day the Americans killed his father in cold blood. His father’s answer was the same one Saajid had given Husaam. He told him that killing isn’t the evil that society makes it out to be. It is a cleansing. Islam is the only religion that should be recognized, and all who denounce it, especially Western Christian societies that claim”
― Bradley Wright, Alexander King Thriller #1-3

“Sam had her hand on King’s back to let him know she was with him so he wouldn’t have to keep checking on her. One of the thousand little things a professional like her did to keep things moving optimally. Only things you could learn with years of experience. Every detail mattered.”
― Bradley Wright, Alexander King Thriller #1-3

“There was no way the man was going to get through the crowd to the door in time to escape King. Though his odds were terrible either way, they would have been better if he’d held his ground and fired back. These are the calculations that untrained terrorists never learn, and it’s the reason they aren’t a lot more dangerous than they are. It’s also the reason they bomb people in secret, because they could never fight an actual war.”
― Bradley Wright, Alexander King Thriller #1-3

“What’s the line from that movie? ‘A friend in need is a pest’?”
― Bradley Wright, Alexander King Thriller #1-3

“It was something his dad used to say. His mom hated when he said it. His father’s point to Alexander at the time was that people who slept too much were getting outworked. His father was a relentless businessman. That was the side of his dad that King was trying his best to remember. Instead of what happened in Moscow.”
― Bradley Wright, Alexander King Thriller #1-3

“It was something his dad used to say. His mom hated when he said it. His father’s point to Alexander at the time was that people who slept too much were getting outworked. His father was a relentless businessman. That was the side of his dad that King was trying his best to remember. Instead of what happened in Moscow. How”
― Bradley Wright, Alexander King Thriller #1-3

“I’ll sleep when I’m dead.”
― Bradley Wright, Alexander King Thriller #1-3

“it was an easy miss. But King still didn’t like misses. Even the smallest ones often meant the difference between living and dying—solving the puzzle and not solving it. However,”
― Bradley Wright, Alexander King Thriller #1-3

“A normal life. And with the adrenaline beginning to leak into his veins as he approached the door to his building, and a possible deadly situation, he couldn’t imagine wanting to live any other way.”
― Bradley Wright, Alexander King Thriller #1-3

“When a man has been fighting battles for half his life, he develops a sort of foreboding ability to sense a battle coming on. And right now he felt like he was walking right back into the snake pit. For King that feeling was nothing new. In fact, it kind of felt like home.”
― Bradley Wright, Alexander King Thriller #1-3

“The web was tangling all around him, but his mind stayed focused. When he was a Navy SEAL, they taught him that the only easy day was yesterday.”
― Bradley Wright, Alexander King Thriller #1-3

“In any war, there was always collateral damage for the greater good. But King never liked this part. This man has a family, friends, maybe even kids, but a host of bad decisions led this man here—guarding a man responsible for the death of many innocent people—and though King didn’t like being the hand that brought the consequences, it’s the life he chose. Nobody likes everything about their job, but the work must still be done.”
― Bradley Wright, Alexander King Thriller #1-3