Inside Threat Quotes

“President Kline sat at the Resolute Desk, turning the pages in a book as reverently as if he were handling a Gutenberg Bible. The volume was bound in black leather and embossed with the seal of the Department of Justice above the title: Presidential Emergency Action Documents. The PEADs were a series of laws and directives, drafted in advance, that could be put into place after a national catastrophe—a nuclear attack or coup takes out government leadership, a pandemic kills half the population, the grid goes down. The specifics were one of the most closely held secrets in government, but in essence they were orders to establish martial law through presidential decree, bypassing Congress and suspending civil liberties and the Constitution if necessary. Reading through them was the stuff of nightmares, a glimpse of how America would attempt to survive its darkest hours since the Civil War.”
― Matthew Quirk, Inside Threat

“A group of protesters shook signs—“Tyrant” and “Killer-in-Chief”—and shouted slogans on the brick sidewalk, facing off with a row of Secret Service agents behind a steel barricade.”
― Matthew Quirk, Inside Threat

“Vice President Sutherland.”
― Matthew Quirk, Inside Threat

“He heard a quiet thock, like an electrical relay opening, coming from the rear of the second Suburban that had been here last night, near the gear cabinets. The faintest smell hit his nose—like an old penny or the electric scent of a model train engine.”
― Matthew Quirk, Inside Threat