Status Updates From The Ultimatum (Jeremy Fisk #3)

“Amigo, any fool can have bad luck. The art consists in exploiting it.”

"Where does this leave us?” asked Chay. “Ah, this is just another day at the office.” Fisk wished it were true. Things usually go wrong. Lots of things go wrong. Today, everything had."

"Norman attempted to scream, to tell her to run, to at least draw attention from passersby. Nothing happened. He couldn’t move. Not a muscle. Not a thing, including his lungs. He figured he had two minutes left."

"She turned to Peavy. “If a sniper were using a quadrocopter with an AR-15, what sort of countermeasures could you employ?”
Peavy thought for a few seconds before answering. “You’d best take him out first.”

"We never take a killer’s word that his victims have been selected at random. Some make that claim simply because it terrifies more people than if they were to say they had a specific target, like world leaders. Some make the claim purely as a diversionary tactic."