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“Hello, Rax.” Galene. On dinner duty. He sighed. He hated “fairness.” What was wrong with a dictatorship?”
― Nick Thacker, The Atlantis Deception

“This internal struggle was one she’d considered her entire life — what were the peculiar genetics that allowed an organism the complexity to battle with itself? To allow one to feel loneliness even in the midst of knowing that being alone was what made it truly happy?”
― Nick Thacker, The Atlantis Deception

“No, thank you.” Isis turned back to Mercer. “You should discuss this with him. He’ll be at dinner, but I’d suggest bringing it up after, when you can catch him alone. You don’t want a repeat of this morning.”
― Nick Thacker, The Atlantis Deception

“I mean, you were a soldier, too. I understand that part, however. My brother is sort of a soldier. In some ways, we all are. We fight for what we think is right. Some of us are better fighters than others, but that's really what a soldier does”
― Nick Thacker, The Patriot

“He didn’t even use the Select All command the last time he did it. He wanted to see each of the words disappear, letter by useless letter.”
― Nick Thacker, The Gray Picture of Dorian

“In Jake's mind, he had no father. The memory of his mother would always live on inside of him, but in his father's case - well, he would work hard to forget him”
― Nick Thacker, False Allegiance

“For whatever reason, Jake Parker had a knack for getting people close to him hurt or killed”
― Nick Thacker, False Allegiance

“He remembered the Dune novels he used to read as a kid and the huge sand worms that would rise up and swallow anything on the surface that moved. He felt like food for a sand worm now.”
― Nick Thacker, The Russian Betrayal

“The mapping software calculated the most common destinations people visited on an individual scale and on a global scale, corrected for regional and geographic discrepancies, and programmed in routes to the software on a user basis. People no longer had to search for a location and wait for it to appear and calculate a route — 9 times out of 10 the service already knew where they wanted to go.”
― Nick Thacker, The Gray Picture of Dorian

“He hung up and then turned to the mirror and examined himself for the second time that night, but for the first time in a long time, he actually paid attention. He saw a man who had seemingly aged years in the span of months. A man who could no longer, by anyone - superior or otherwise - be described as a "kid". He wondered when it had happened. When the world had passed him by and he'd become his father, when he'd become "old". People at the pub on the bottom floor of the building he lived in joked about his "old man" Corolla, as if it were some old-school ride and not just an efficient, affordable vehicle. He wondered when he'd stopped thinking of himself as youthful, eager, and driven and instead started thinking of himself as experienced, capable, and bold. Barely forty, he wasn't old by the world's standards, but he wasn't young, either. He was reaching the early years of middle-age, but the career he'd had in both the military and then in law enforcement seemed to tack on a decade or two.”
― Nick Thacker, The Patriot

“She felt he was happiest alone in his room, his own thoughts and the computer’s AI his only companionship.”
― Nick Thacker, The Atlantis Deception

“Never work alone," Jorge had told him. "When you take a case, and you don't already have a partner assigned to you, make two calls: find someone you can trust, and get them on your side early."  Jake remembered nodding along as his mentor gave him the tip. "And the second call?" Jake had asked. "Find someone smarter than you to be your asset. Someone uninvolved in the case, and get them involved.”
― Nick Thacker, Containment

“Would you mind sharing that opinion”
― Nick Thacker, The Thriller Collection: 7 Action-Packed, Fast-Paced Thrillers

“But they are happy, sir,” the doctor said. “Happiness is as much a curse as a virtue,” Nikolai said, turning to the shorter man.”
― Nick Thacker, The Enigma Strain

“wanted”
― Nick Thacker, The Caribbean Affair

“Blur the lines, and the unseen becomes seen.”
― Nick Thacker, Containment

“death sentence, at least for their research funding, might be exactly what they would receive upon their arrival back home. “What?”
― Nick Thacker, The Atlantis Deception

“The”
― Nick Thacker, The Eye of Odin

“He had nowhere else to be, nowhere to go. Nowhere he wanted to go, and yet he felt trapped.”
― Nick Thacker, Containment

“Dr. Henry Wu,”
― Nick Thacker, The Amazon Code

“The pattern recognition module that we are all equipped with in our heads is extremely strong and well-developed. What makes sense to our subconscious mind when we are sleeping is almost inconceivably ridiculous when we wake up.”
― Nick Thacker, The Amazon Code

“wireless network from his cellphone to connect the computer to the internet and download the information Dr. Ortega had left for them.”
― Nick Thacker, The Amazon Code

“. Thomas Jefferson had paid Meriwether Lewis to hide the map, to keep a record of its location but not reveal to the world what the second president had possession”
― Nick Thacker, The Jefferson Legacy

“But freedom and justice and inclusion for a single person is not the same thing as freedom and justice and inclusion for everyone.”
― Nick Thacker, Containment

“She felt he was happiest alone in his room, his own thoughts and the computer’s AI his only companionship”
― Nick Thacker, The Atlantis Deception

“He did his best to temper his conscience with a healthy dose of reality by at least following along with current events. It had allowed him to develop, over time and with a lot of experience, a great sense of what really mattered, how to fight against those who wanted to take that away, and how to stay alive while doing it.”
― Nick Thacker, Containment

“But the problem was that the program was designed to protect itself against ignorant computer users who don’t know the first thing about anything other than sending an email and playing solitaire — the types of people that can generally be found working in government offices.”
― Nick Thacker, Relics: The Dawn

“There is no such thing as safe”
― Nick Thacker, Relics: The Dawn

“The panic is the pandemic, and that will lead to change.”
― Nick Thacker, Containment

“of,” so it wasn’t out of the ordinary for Julie to be asking for a work-”
― Nick Thacker, The Enigma Strain