“Run,Nathan,run.Run as if your life depended on it.”
―
John Gilstrap,
Nathan's Run
“Battles are won when warriors make the decisions not to lose.” ― John Gilstrap, No Mercy
“.....youth dies when you stop believing that you can affect the hand you're dealt at birth. The reality is, sometimes you just draw shitty cards, and no matter how much you plan, and no matter how hard you work to be good and to go to church and to think the right thoughts, there's nothing in the world you can do to get a reshuffle.” ― John Gilstrap, Even Steven
“we reporters are not all that incentivized to determine whether the underlying facts behind the leaks are truth or fiction. The fact that an important person said it is itself newsworthy.” ― John Gilstrap, High Treason
“Sometimes, the world's bad players so egregiously fractured the social contract that they surrendered their right to fairness in general, let alone a fair trial. They needed to be milked for information and then incinerated in the human trash heap. The bitter irony of it all was the inherent hypocrisy of the American people. As intense as their need for action when they were frightened was their self-righteous anger once a sense of peace was restored. This was why governments so often failed at their mission to keep people safe from terror. Law enforcement agencies were ultimately managed by elected politicians whose fealty to the will of the people made it ultimately impossible for the law enforcers to do their jobs. Justice and principle took a backseat to re-election and pandering. Politicians forgot what they ordered the street cops and soldiers to do, and in the end, they turned on them and vilified them for doing what they were told.” ― John Gilstrap, Total Mayhem
“father flipped the light” ― John Gilstrap, Damage Control
“Venice had no memories of her father, a policeman killed in the line of duty before she was born, and it was a source of pain that she’d never truly overcome. For as long as she could remember, she’d always dreamed about what her father might have sounded like and smelled like. The picture on Mama’s dresser gave her a face, but she’d never know the voice that went with it.” ― John Gilstrap, No Mercy
“when he heard the voice, he knew for” ― John Gilstrap, Against All Enemies
“to their names, but the car they’re driving is registered” ― John Gilstrap, End Game
“I don’t say this with any pride,” Darmond explained, “but you need to understand the nature of politics. Politicians are like dogs that chase cars. We have no intention of actually catching what we chase. What would be the point? Once a problem is solved, the public loses interest in it. You get twenty minutes of attention at the celebratory press conference, and then it’s gone. People shift to the next issue. We spend years and countless amounts of money developing perceptions of problems into perceptions of crises. No one wants to start that over and over again.” ― John Gilstrap, Lethal Prey
“published” ― John Gilstrap, Against All Enemies
“And all that lay ahead of them was the future.” ― John Gilstrap, At All Costs
“That would explain the pigs I saw flying over frozen Hell this morning,” ― John Gilstrap, End Game
“Whatever his bullets touched instantly joined a parallel universe.” ― John Gilstrap, End Game
“Whatever happened, happened in exactly one way, and the investigator’s job was to sift through often-conflicting bits and pieces to construct the one true story.” ― John Gilstrap, No Mercy
“COSTS “Riveting” ― John Gilstrap, Against All Enemies
“The fullness of the moon made it all more complicated. The intense silver glow cast shadows as defined as midday despite the thin veil of cloud cover. Dressed entirely in black, with only his eyes showing beneath his hood, Jonathan Grave moved like a shadow in the stillness. Crickets and tree frogs, nocturnal noisemakers by the thousands, gave him some cover, but not enough. There was never enough cover. He reminded himself that he was in Indiana soybean country facing a clueless adversary, but then he remembered the penalty for failing to respect one’s adversary.” ― John Gilstrap, No Mercy
“you” ― John Gilstrap, Friendly Fire
“Jonathan nodded and joined him in watching the lane stripes on the Beltway zoom past. They” ― John Gilstrap, No Mercy
“Battles are won when warriors make the decisions not to lose.” ― John Gilstrap, No Mercy
“.....youth dies when you stop believing that you can affect the hand you're dealt at birth. The reality is, sometimes you just draw shitty cards, and no matter how much you plan, and no matter how hard you work to be good and to go to church and to think the right thoughts, there's nothing in the world you can do to get a reshuffle.” ― John Gilstrap, Even Steven
“we reporters are not all that incentivized to determine whether the underlying facts behind the leaks are truth or fiction. The fact that an important person said it is itself newsworthy.” ― John Gilstrap, High Treason
“Sometimes, the world's bad players so egregiously fractured the social contract that they surrendered their right to fairness in general, let alone a fair trial. They needed to be milked for information and then incinerated in the human trash heap. The bitter irony of it all was the inherent hypocrisy of the American people. As intense as their need for action when they were frightened was their self-righteous anger once a sense of peace was restored. This was why governments so often failed at their mission to keep people safe from terror. Law enforcement agencies were ultimately managed by elected politicians whose fealty to the will of the people made it ultimately impossible for the law enforcers to do their jobs. Justice and principle took a backseat to re-election and pandering. Politicians forgot what they ordered the street cops and soldiers to do, and in the end, they turned on them and vilified them for doing what they were told.” ― John Gilstrap, Total Mayhem
“father flipped the light” ― John Gilstrap, Damage Control
“Venice had no memories of her father, a policeman killed in the line of duty before she was born, and it was a source of pain that she’d never truly overcome. For as long as she could remember, she’d always dreamed about what her father might have sounded like and smelled like. The picture on Mama’s dresser gave her a face, but she’d never know the voice that went with it.” ― John Gilstrap, No Mercy
“when he heard the voice, he knew for” ― John Gilstrap, Against All Enemies
“to their names, but the car they’re driving is registered” ― John Gilstrap, End Game
“I don’t say this with any pride,” Darmond explained, “but you need to understand the nature of politics. Politicians are like dogs that chase cars. We have no intention of actually catching what we chase. What would be the point? Once a problem is solved, the public loses interest in it. You get twenty minutes of attention at the celebratory press conference, and then it’s gone. People shift to the next issue. We spend years and countless amounts of money developing perceptions of problems into perceptions of crises. No one wants to start that over and over again.” ― John Gilstrap, Lethal Prey
“published” ― John Gilstrap, Against All Enemies
“And all that lay ahead of them was the future.” ― John Gilstrap, At All Costs
“That would explain the pigs I saw flying over frozen Hell this morning,” ― John Gilstrap, End Game
“Whatever his bullets touched instantly joined a parallel universe.” ― John Gilstrap, End Game
“Whatever happened, happened in exactly one way, and the investigator’s job was to sift through often-conflicting bits and pieces to construct the one true story.” ― John Gilstrap, No Mercy
“COSTS “Riveting” ― John Gilstrap, Against All Enemies
“The fullness of the moon made it all more complicated. The intense silver glow cast shadows as defined as midday despite the thin veil of cloud cover. Dressed entirely in black, with only his eyes showing beneath his hood, Jonathan Grave moved like a shadow in the stillness. Crickets and tree frogs, nocturnal noisemakers by the thousands, gave him some cover, but not enough. There was never enough cover. He reminded himself that he was in Indiana soybean country facing a clueless adversary, but then he remembered the penalty for failing to respect one’s adversary.” ― John Gilstrap, No Mercy
“you” ― John Gilstrap, Friendly Fire
“Jonathan nodded and joined him in watching the lane stripes on the Beltway zoom past. They” ― John Gilstrap, No Mercy
