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  1. David Baldacci _ The Escape

    You can't command men in battle if they like you, Bob," his father had said. "They have to have equal parts fear and respect. And I would say fear is even more important than respect. Respect only gets you so far. Fear can get you through every damn obstacle devised by the enemy. Men will follow you to hell if they fear you. Because failing you will scare them more than any other thing they will ever face on the battlefield. You remember that, son. You remember that if you remember nothing else I've ever told you." Bobby had never gotten over this "weakness." Which was probably why he opted for the Air Force instead of the Army. And staked
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  2. David Baldacci _ The Escape

    You can't command men in battle if they like you, Bob," his father had said. "They have to have equal parts fear and respect.
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  3. David Baldacci _ The Escape

    You can't command men in battle if they like you,
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  4. David Baldacci _ The Escape

    never been faced with something like this. I have our people here working on it, but don't expect a fast answer.
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  5. David Baldacci _ The Escape

    Because in my experience, patriotism, while a fine quality, can fuel quite a dangerous agenda if taken to the extreme.
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  6. David Baldacci _ The Escape

    This message was repeated down the line until it was ringing in every guard's ears. Shots fired and nobody knew from where or by whom. And since none of the guards had guns, that meant one of the prisoners must. Maybe more than one. Now things, already serious, morphed
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  7. David Baldacci _ The Escape

    someone like you could be so, how do you say, fortunate," said Bok.
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  8. David Baldacci _ The Escape

    noted the military guards posted out front to secure the crime
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  9. David Baldacci _ The Escape

    Really good liars always work in something true to make the lie more plausible. - John Puller
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  10. David Baldacci _ The Escape

    But I bet they don't know what I saw." Puller sat down in a chair next to her bed. "So why don't you tell me what that was?" Knox glanced at the glass door to her room and saw a police officer, a man in a suit, and a burly MP standing guard there. "They're not taking any chances with you," he said, following her gaze. "Cops, FBI, and the military." She turned back to Puller and slowly but clearly told him what she had seen. The van, the kid, everything. "So it was a deliberate setup the whole way," Puller concluded. "It appeared to be. But why target Carter?" "Well, he heads up an important part of our nation's defenses. He's a target just by virtue
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  11. David Baldacci _ The Escape

    he would have been under the tutelage of a two-star.
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  12. David Baldacci _ The Escape

    When you lie a rush of adrenaline to the capillaries in the nose causes it to itch. So people who are lying tend to involuntarily scratch it. - John Puller
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