George Wallace > Quotes

“The bow of the Cyclone disappeared once again under the green water of the storm-tossed sea. The bow rose back up dutifully, seawater running down the deck and over the side. She slapped back down hard, tossing foaming white water from either side of her bow.”
― George Wallace, Final Bearing

“just talked with Jim Ward.”
― George Wallace, Dangerous Grounds

“buried in the jungle a half-mile away. Even its exhaust pipe ended beneath the water of the river so the satellite infrared sensors would not be able to see its heat and raise suspicion.”
― George Wallace, Final Bearing

“automatic”
― George Wallace, Cuban Deep

“World War II battleships with their armor-piercing shells the size of Volkswagens.”
― George Wallace, Final Bearing

“old-fashioned Morse code”
― George Wallace, Dangerous Grounds

“God put him on this earth to win the revolution and make him rich at the same time. And he doesn’t care who or how many have to die in the process. He’s smart. He’s dangerous. And he’s crazy as a loon.”
― George Wallace, Final Bearing

“The big .357 made a lot of noise.”
― George Wallace, Dangerous Grounds

“as Corpus raced through the shallow water”
― George Wallace, Dangerous Grounds

“I want a cold San Mig.”
― George Wallace, Dangerous Grounds

“locals.”
― George Wallace, Final Bearing

“The real secrets of the room were in this back corner. Spadefish and her sisters of the Sturgeon class had been designed more as spy ships than as offensive weapons. With their endurance and stealth, they could sit off the coast of an unsuspecting country for months at a time without being detected. The sophisticated sensors housed in this room allowed her to sweep the electronic spectrum, gathering, decrypting, translating, and interpreting. During the long years of the Cold War, several of these boats were always on station, just outside the territorial limits of the old USSR, hidden but listening attentively. It had been a very dangerous game of cat and mouse. The secrets that had been gathered in this room and others on boats like it had helped to win that war. The “Silent Service” had certainly lived up to its name, and even now, few knew of its contributions to the eventual fall of the Soviet Union. Larson”
― George Wallace, Final Bearing

“And, at minus one hundred and fifty degrees,”
― George Wallace, Dangerous Grounds

“anyone approaching Spadefish. Outside, the western sky was ablaze in the pinks, oranges and golds of the departing sun. The heavens darkened to a deep indigo to the east. A few stars were already starting to twinkle through the gathering darkness. Venus rose bright and bold in the east, just below the sliver of the new moon. The darker blue sea was empty, calm.”
― George Wallace, Final Bearing

“RHIB.”
― George Wallace, Final Bearing

“NAVSTAR satellites in geo-synchronous orbit twenty-three thousand miles overhead.”
― George Wallace, Final Bearing

“Otherwise, they would dream up other ways to screw with a well-run Navy.”
― George Wallace, Dangerous Grounds

“Skipper,”
― George Wallace, Dangerous Grounds

“What kind of self-respecting gunners mate used a computer”
― George Wallace, Dangerous Grounds

“PC 3" painted on the bow below the gunnel.”
― George Wallace, Final Bearing

“pulled his favorite Browning Hi-Power from under his tunic and aimed. The big .357 blew the lock open,”
― George Wallace, Dangerous Grounds

“Navy Colt”
― George Wallace, Cuban Deep

“like a trussed fowl, skewered through and through with office pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.”
― George Wallace, Arabian Storm

“he’s convinced that God put him on this earth to win the revolution and make him rich at the same time. And he doesn’t care who or how many have to die in the process. He’s smart. He’s dangerous. And he’s crazy as a loon.”
― George Wallace, Final Bearing

“The eastern sky was glowing orange, red, and gold.”
― George Wallace, Cuban Deep

“or maybe—even worse—on NBC Nightly News.”
― George Wallace, Cuban Deep