"The fact of the matter is if you do your job right, it will only take one person. You get in, you do the deed, and you get the fuck out"

"If someone challenged him , he’d be lucky if they stole all his gear and left him naked in the bush to die. The unlucky and more likely end to the encounter would include a bullet in the back of his head from his own gun."

"I’m sorry. I didn’t realize you needed to know the age, gender and favorite color of your targets. Well, allow me to introduce you to the real fucking world."

"Trent didn’t have room in his moral code to slit the throat of every twelve-year-old sentry who might stumble across his path, but that same kid might put a bullet in him without a second thought."

"For a fleeting moment that lasted a lifetime, a black boy and a black man stared at each other across a distance of twenty feet that managed to separate them by hundreds of violent years and made them enemies in a war neither of them chose, cared about, or even understood."

"It was your mission, your bad intel, and your threats that put me in that position. It might not be your fault, but now it's your fucking problem."