In the Blood Quotes

“Tower of the Elephant in my third novel, Savage Son: “Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“like all religions, was only intended to keep the people in line. To keep them obedient. The Five Pillars. All they did was relegate the masses to poverty and misery. There was no God. There was only man and rifle.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“The West believed they had won. It was that belief that allowed them to let down their guard, focus inward, find the wrongs in their society, and exploit and even exacerbate them for political gain. It was a myopic strategy. He had expected more of his Cold War rival. That they did not study or learn from their history did not bode well for their future. The death of the West. The USSR hadn’t needed ballistic missile submarines or a nuclear arsenal larger than the United States’. All they had needed to defeat the Americans was patience.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“SCI: Special Compartmentalized Information. Classified information concerning or derived from sensitive intelligence sources, methods, or analytical processes. Often found on private basement servers in upstate New York or bathroom closet servers in Denver.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“Politicians and their relatives provide ample fodder as well, with elected officials who enter politics making between one hundred and two hundred thousand dollars a year, yet somehow amass wealth in the tens of millions over their tenure in government; aside from being humble public servants, apparently they are also astute investors. Politics is big business. Is”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“One day Syria would push Israel back to its pre-1967 borders. They had made gains in the region, kicking the Americans out of Iraq, but Israel still existed. Their American masters were on their knees, sent running from Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan. They were now focused on domestic problems, riots in their streets, political division, and an economy crippled by the pandemic. They even made themselves again dependent on foreign oil, oil from the Arab world. Self-inflicted wounds.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“As President Dwight D. Eisenhower said, “You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” The same is true of warfare; it looks mighty easy when your rifle is a budget approval and you are six thousand miles from the battlefield.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“Blade or bullet?” “Are you really going to let me choose?” “No.” Reece raised his pistol and put one suppressed 7.62x38R round into the legionnaire’s face.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“he heard the immortal wisdom of Wyatt Earp: Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. In a gunfight you must learn to be slow in a hurry.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“Sayeret Matkal”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“Don’t dwell on the past, son. Learn from it.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“Once inside Europe’s twenty-six-country Schengen area,”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge. —Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“EVERYTHING COMES IN TIME TO HIM WHO KNOWS HOW TO WAIT. —LEO TOLSTOY, WAR AND PEACE”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. In a gunfight you must learn to be slow in a hurry.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“roundabout, T-boning a car in the process. His”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“WAR WAS ALWAYS HERE. BEFORE MAN WAS, WAR WAITED FOR HIM. THE ULTIMATE TRADE AWAITING ITS ULTIMATE PRACTITIONER.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“What was merely an uncomfortable experience was deemed torture by many in the public square. Spend some time in the company of ISIS or the Taliban if you want a lesson in real torture.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“The Americans had almost destroyed themselves with their COVID mandates; failed wars in a part of the world they would never understand; race riots; political upheaval; and a border policy of which Gromyko’s predecessors could only have dreamed. Russia”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“What made a country? Borders, language, and culture. The Americans were doing away with all three. It would lead to their downfall,”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“The pistol is just to fight your way to the rifle. Then get to work.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“When the men and women on both sides love their children more than they hate their enemies, then maybe this can stop.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“Danger Close podcast.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“What do you know of Sidney Gottlieb?” “Rings a bell. Isn’t he the mind-control LSD guy from the CIA in the fifties and sixties?”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“Mr. Donovan, I have been in this chair for over thirty years.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“Soon after I left the hospital, I was wearing a comfortable white T-shirt and sweatpants. A man tossed a euro in my lap as he passed. He thought I was homeless.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“Self-reliant men, capable of extreme violence in defense of their lives, their families, and of freedom makes some people nervous.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“leather holster from Alessi sat”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“WAS”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood

“LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE sits just southeast of the U.S. Route 90 and Interstate 410 interchange, in the dead center of San Antonio, a city better known for its River Walk and Mexican food. It is bisected by Route 13 and its Gateway Hills Golf Course occupies a significant portion of the property. It is home to one of the largest Air Force training facilities in the United States and hosts the Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, one of the country’s four major referral centers for advanced medical care. In more recent years, Lackland had become part of Joint Base San Antonio, home to the 16th Air Force.”
― Jack Carr, In the Blood