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The effectiveness of any operation is in inverse proportion to the number of people used.
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
I’ve always been pretty much on the outside of any side you can find.
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
Despite its huge wealth, vast oil reserves, and love of high-tech American ornaments, nothing really works in Saudi Arabia.
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
Crime intelligence reports from any police force in Europe would tell you that half of Albania was involved in the murder-for-hire business.
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
We’ve got one huge advantage—people believe what they see in databases. They’ve never learned the most important rule of cyberspace—computers don’t lie but liars can compute.
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
In the Army, as in life, sometimes you had to create a crisis in order to get people’s attention.
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty;
I woke, and found that life was duty.
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
Heavily armed men in uniform were everywhere, but there was nothing you could call genuine security: as usual, too many guns, not enough intelligence.
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
And of every kind of love—the epic and the small, the noble and the base—the one that a parent has for their child is the greatest of them all.
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
I had read about it, of course, but I had never actually seen the machinery of a totalitarian state in full flight. For anyone who values privacy and freedom it’s a terrifying thing to behold.
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
Like the old virologist had said—sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences.
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
Apart from opium poppies and hemp plants, kidnappings for ransom had become about the only growth industry in Afghanistan.
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
If only—but it has been my unfortunate experience that you can’t rely on divine intervention and that fate favors the bad as often as the good.
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
Several guards and retainers exchanged a glance—Gaza was not somewhere to be taken lightly; it was probably the only place in the world that made Afghanistan look safe.
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
Not everybody knows this—or cares probably—but the first law of forensic science is Locard’s Exchange Principle, and it says “Every contact between a perpetrator and a crime scene leaves a trace.”
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
The driver thought I was crazy—but then his religion thinks stoning a woman to death for adultery is reasonable, so I figured we were about even.
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
I mean, there’s no better alibi than being dead, is there?
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
I had got up in the morning and, by the time I was ready for bed it was a different planet—the world doesn’t change in front of your eyes; it changes behind your back.
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
I went to open the front passenger’s door. It was locked and she indicated the rear seat. Apparently it was okay for a Muslim woman to lead a man to his death but not to share the front seat with him.
I Am Pilgrim (2013)
He came toward me and I realized I was being given the singular honor denied to so many dictators and mass murderers—I was going to be thrown out of a Swiss bank.
I Am Pilgrim (2013)