A Killer’s Game Quotes

“Dani reached out to pull her brother and sister into a tight embrace. She was her father’s daughter after all.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“He had a secure server to avoid corporate espionage, but he had to allow her access. She’s clearly brilliant at codes, puzzles, and ciphers. She must have seen encrypted files and looked on it as a challenge.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“He stood to save more than a billion dollars by killing her.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“A quick check of the video feed revealed that Daniela Vega was a problem. The woman was changing the dynamics of the game. Her growing legions of fans were skewing the data.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“I think he used the contacts he had gained during his last assignment at the Pentagon to gain money and power denied to him in his military career,” Cattrall added.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“Certain employees and subcontractors, each with ironclad nondisclosure agreements, had worked on various components of the facility. None of them had seen the entire setup or knew of its full capabilities.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“She’d risked her life for both. Could she ally herself—even on a temporary basis—with someone who had no loyalty, no allegiance, and no moral compass?”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“he’d already worked out a strategy and believed he had enough valuable intel to buy his freedom. Like so many before him, he thought he was above the law. Thought he could bend the rules to escape accountability for his actions. No way would she let him weasel out of a murder rap, but he might be able to make his situation better.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“The final words of the Ranger’s creed came to her. Readily will I display the intestinal fortitude required to fight on to the Ranger objective and complete the mission, though I be the lone survivor.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“Once Megan killed her father, she could no longer use him to create voice commands or dialogue. Raised by a cold and calculating father, Megan had learned by example from the best.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“Who investigated financial crimes? The FBI. If they had been doing their job, Senator Sledge would never have been able to take bribes from people like her father, who funneled money through the Colonel, making all of them rich. Making them believe they could do anything they wanted.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“Colonel Treadway was supposed to be the last man standing. He had been the trigger man, and his punishment was to watch everything he had worked for implode, knowing he would die in disgrace, and that he would be reviled in death.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“And then it hit him all at once. He was done following protocol. Done sitting behind a desk. Done sending others into danger. From now on, he wasn’t just in charge of the investigation, he was running point. “I’m going to get Agent Vega back,” he said to Hargrave. “Personally.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“Why did Brinkley convert the operating system for what would have been a lucrative defense contract into the VR game we see now with Greek gods killing each other?”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“In his final moments, Toro wanted her to know he was not the monster she had thought him. For whatever reason, he could no longer bear the idea that she would think of him as someone who would take the life of an innocent child. Why did he care what she thought?”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“I guess when there are millions at stake, there’s no low you won’t sink to.” She shook her head. “What was the third contract?”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“Some women flirted and strutted, manipulating men at every turn, but Vega seemed to have no clue she was beautiful. The spandex suit clung to her athletic feminine form, and even though the viewers couldn’t see her body through the avatar, Toro certainly could.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“Just do me a favor.” She closed her hands over the mask. “What’s that?” “Find Nemesis and stop him. Lock him away forever, or, better yet, kill the son of a bitch.” He had given her a mission. A mission greater than herself that demanded her survival. He must have figured it was the only way she would do something so antithetical to all her beliefs. And he’d figured right.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“Nemesis wanted to demean and demoralize them, watch them scratch and claw like animals in a pit. She refused to debase herself for someone else’s amusement.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“She seems to have idolized her father and wanted to follow in his footsteps,” Cattrall said. “Pushing herself to attain the same elite status he did tells me she wanted to prove she was her father’s daughter—not her mother’s.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“That’s the whole point of the Greek-mythology angle. The gods toyed with humans. They usually didn’t kill them outright, often manipulating them toward their own demise using their character weaknesses.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“He could put a bullet in each of their brains, but instead we get a multiple kidnapping and a sadistic game.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“Then the others in the game are his crew,” Flint said. “Which means this has something to do with Nathan Costner’s murder.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“Even as a young boy, Axel loved math. Dani instinctively sensed that rational equations gave him a feeling of control in a world that had become chaotic. Math problems could be solved. They made sense, while feelings often did not.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“background had given her a front-row seat to some of the most despicable violence human beings could visit upon each other, and she kept her composure.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“The game’s developer was making sure a crowd was watching, but Vega and Toro were not slaves or POWs, so what crime did he believe they had committed to earn a place in his coliseum?”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“Nothing would be more embarrassing than having Director Franklin or one of his deputy directors ask questions to which he had no answers.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“Part of their captor’s tactics, no doubt. She felt the same oppressive sense of confinement Toro did but willed herself to remain focused on the task at hand.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“Wu took pity on the cybercrime specialist, who spent more time with computers than people. “Gamers are drawn to visually appealing characters with backstories of their own in a challenging environment,” he said by way of explanation. Patel nodded. “There’s an aesthetic. The game has to be challenging, but it should look good too.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game

“What’s the point of avatars from mythology?” Hargrave posed the question to the room at large. “Why not just hide their identities with generic faceless figures?” “You don’t know much about gaming, do you?” Patel said, then quickly added, “Sir.”
― Isabella Maldonado, A Killer’s Game