Ben Coes > Quotes

“Yet you killed my men. You've killed thousands already.” “When you come to our countries, what do you do?” asked Fortuna”
― Ben Coes, Power Down

“If you think you have nothing, then you do, and that’s when you’re defeated.”
― Ben Coes, Coup D'Etat

“Politicians are bad enough, but the guys who get them elected? They’re assholes. — Pete Bond”
― Ben Coes, Independence Day

“I can’t hold it!”
― Ben Coes, Power Down

“No one can be trusted, Russia, China, North Korea Pakistan. Certainly not the Iranians – Hector Calibrisi”
― Ben Coes, The Last Refuge

“Silence was always the best fuck you. - Hector Calibrisi”
― Ben Coes, Independence Day

“smashing”
― Ben Coes, The Island

“We have bridges that are falling down in towns that are filled with teenagers addicted to opioids. Schools that are unsafe, forty thousand homeless veterans. It’s time to put the world on notice: we need to take care of our own.”
― Ben Coes, The Island

“Unlike India, America is a country that was born in blood. Our freedom was won with the barrels of our shotguns. We were the country that first dropped nuclear bombs in a foreign land. We are the country that has protected our allies, including India, with the threat of a nuclear arsenal, for more than half century. - President Rob Allaire”
― Ben Coes, Coup d'Etat

“the white bath mat. The man kicked out and sent Qassou flying through the air, striking against the”
― Ben Coes, The Last Refuge

“his head. “Ring any bells?” asked the stranger.”
― Ben Coes, The Last Refuge

“Those are fresh off NGA SAT an hour ago”
― Ben Coes, Independence Day

“chanteuse”
― Ben Coes, Coup D'Etat

“inside the elevator. The door closed and the elevator went down, to a heavily fortified floor eleven stories below”
― Ben Coes, Power Down

“Three hundred years ago, this country didn’t even exist. There is nothing, there is no overreaching reason, that the United States must be the world’s protector. Certainly not when doing so endangers our own safety and security, as it does in this case. - General Lindsay”
― Ben Coes, Coup d'Etat

“Loyalty equal stability. Disloyalty equals chaos. – Dewey Andreas”
― Ben Coes, Coup d'Etat

“Tacoma and Calibrisi remained at Cosgrove’s house as two teams of CIA forensics experts and a six-person sanitization crew made it look as if nothing had happened at the house. The plaster wall where the bullet that had passed through the Russian’s thumb was embedded had been sanitized and patched up. All traces of blood upstairs and down were gone. Even an experienced investigator would have found nothing more than some molecular-level DNA. The cleaning process had included a thorough cataloging of all fingerprints in the house, followed by a methodical washing of every surface, followed by a radiological burst, in which every room in the house was exposed for a brief time”
― Ben Coes, The Russian

“an instant, a simple swatch of light, then movement: the blond-haired executioner. She stood in a doorway just beyond the street corner, hiding, waiting, arms raised and weapon trained. The reflection in the car window saved Dewey from what would have been, in five feet or so, a warm bullet in the back of the head. Dewey stopped just before the corner, feet away from where the blond assassin lurked. He looked behind him, down the block he’d just run down, and saw a Laundromat. He dropped back and entered the Laundromat. He ran through the store, pushing his way past piles of laundry and women folding articles, to the back room, where a man sat, smoking a cigarette in front of a pile of papers. “Lo siento,” murmured Dewey as he charged through the office toward an alley entrance, gun in hand. The sirens became louder, multiple vehicles joining in the distance. Out the door and across the alley and through a dented steel door. Inside, stacks of bread loaves, other boxes of food, the smell of meat. He moved through the storage room and entered the back of a bodega. Colt .45 cocked in front of him, he passed a middle-aged woman who fainted as she saw the weapon in his hand. Catching the eye of the man at the cash register, Dewey held a finger to his lips. There, at the side of the entrance, her back to the store, stood the blond assassin. Suddenly another customer, an elderly woman, screamed as she saw Dewey with gun. The blonde turned abruptly, leveling what he now saw was an HK UMP compact machine gun with a six-inch suppressor on the end. A full auto hail of bullets crashed through the windows as she swept the weapon east-west. The elderly woman’s screams ended abruptly as a bullet ripped through her head and killed her. The assassin’s bullets shattered the storefront’s glass, but Dewey was already down and partially hidden by a chest freezer, which shielded him from the slugs. As soon as the blonde’s gun swept past him, Dewey had a clear sight. He fired twice, two quick shots into the assassin’s neck and chest, flinging her backward onto the brick sidewalk in a shower of blood and glass. Dewey ran”
― Ben Coes, Power Down

“The Iranians are the most dishonest group of people on this planet. - Jessica”
― Ben Coes, The Last Refuge

“Most politicians cared only about whether people like them. Most ran for office out of some deep-seated need to prove — to themselves, to their parents, who knows — that people liked them. If they happened to do good things once they were elected, that was a bonus a bonus. - Hector Calibrisi”
― Ben Coes, Independence Day

“mugs”
― Ben Coes, Bloody Sunday

“We’re not going to make it,” said”
― Ben Coes, Power Down

“lot. A”
― Ben Coes, Eye for an Eye

“was a grainy black-and-white”
― Ben Coes, The Island

“The gravest threat facing the United States comes from within, when our best people refuse to get involved. When the men and women we need to fight those threats you mentioned — radical Islam, China — stay on the sidelines. That’s our gravest threat. - Hector Calibrisi”
― Ben Coes, The Last Refuge

“It’s not a compliment if it’s the truth. — Pyotr Vargarin”
― Ben Coes, Independence Day

“Notorious is the rung on the ladder just before ubiquity. – Josh Gant”
― Ben Coes, Independence Day