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Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3) QUOTES

Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3) QUOTES

1 " A traitor to both sides, the ultimate asshole… "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

2 " Look at that asshole! Not a care in the world! Today, I fish; tomorrow, I blow up a mosque. Smart, hiding in plain sight.  "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

3 " . . . being on the wrong side of a pissing contest is never a good thing. "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

4 " Your friends dress like your enemies, and your enemies dress like your friends. "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

5 " If Jack Dylan was Captain Ahab, Bart Breitner was Moby Dick. Jack felt exhilarated, as Ahab must have felt when he finally encountered the great white. He would approach with caution and test the waters. He was alone, and he sensed extreme danger, but this was a tremendous opportunity that he could not pass up. "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

6 " Then let’s get to work. Sarin…shit! We must stop these guys…again.”
The men nodded, stone-faced. Was it really déjà vu all over again? "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

7 " Twenty-five elite law enforcement officers against six racist assholes. Four to one; pretty good odds. "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

8 " When the prosecution is confronted with concrete evidence of a defendant’s innocence during a trial or investigation, or even after a jury renders an erroneous guilty verdict, that prosecutor must come forward, as an officer of the court, to make sure that justice is done. Defense attorneys have no such obligation, even when they know their clients are guilty. "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

9 " They pulled up the Free America Party’s website, with its red, white, and blue colors and Old Glory electronically waving in the background. Talk about your terrorist supremacist oxymoron. "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

10 " It’s possible that the cops did not ask the right questions.”
“You mean the kind of questions that might get Jack off the hook?”
“Yeah, those kinds of questions. "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

11 " We need to find more body parts if possible, and we need divers and evidence
retrieval specialists. You got those, too?”
“Just say the word, and they are yours, like the song goes.”
“What song?”
“The Tom Jones song. ‘Help Yourself.’ Do you guys remember that one?”
“You’re really old, Micah. How old is Tom Jones, anyway? Eighty?”
“I don’t know. So what? Is it illegal to remember Tom Jones?” Micah turned his fist into a microphone, held it up to his mouth, and began to sing and gyrate his lower
torso in a circular manner, his best imitation of Tom Jones in his prime years.
“Now there’s an image that will be impossible to erase from my mind,” Zack said, looking repulsed. "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

12 " Hey, Jack? Think back for a second. Did you see or hear a boat or any type of motor that evening, like immediately before the explosion?”
“I can’t remember. I was too busy doing what my mother always told me to do.”
“What was that?”
“Go jump in the lake. "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

13 " The property backed up to the freeway. Micah could hear loud traffic as he ascended the
office steps. How can anyone live here with all this noise? "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

14 " I need reasonable doubt, not proof of innocence and these videos are the very definition of
reasonable doubt. "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

15 " In baseball terminology, the team was hitting singles, but had yet to hit a home run. "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

16 " Jack was angry with himself . . . He shouldn’t have allowed himself to be alone with the terrorist but his obsession with capturing him clouded his judgment. Now, he faced the ultimate irony. Here in this place, at this time, he stood accused of being a criminal, like those he spent his career bringing to justice. "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

17 " Jack Dylan was not a religious man, but he thanked God that Zack was a more talented lawyer than he, Jack, was a police officer. Zachary Blake is a master; he will never mimic my carelessness. Somehow, he will persuade the jury to find me ‘not guilty. "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

18 " Bad judgment in Manistee would haunt him for the rest of his life because he was the only person left alive who knew, for certain, that he was innocent. "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

19 " The truth continues to be unimportant in this case. "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)

20 " This big city boy is good. I’m going to enjoy this trial. "

― Mark M. Bello , Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller #3)