In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.
The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.
I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.
See, that why I ain’t go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want’a talk to God, well I say, ‘howdy-howdy, God,’ and we jaw fer a bit.’ - Jimmy ‘Diamond’ Skinner
A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?
It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.
Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.
Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.
I'm ever curious about the world.
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