Betrayal In Blue Quotes

“Never discount woman’s intuition Zack. That is real.”
“I never discount a woman’s anything, dear. The world would be a better place if woman were in charge.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“A traitor to both sides, the ultimate asshole…”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Benjamin Blaine,” he muttered. Glad that asshole is locked up for the rest of his miserable life.
But Jack was not naïve; he knew that there were thousands like Blaine, across America, spurred to action by the sinister rhetoric of a racist president. Either way, they were equally as dangerous, perhaps more so.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Your friends dress like your enemies, and your enemies dress like your friends.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“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

“...being on the wrong side of a pissing contest is never a good thing.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Sarin in Dearborn? Are you shitting me? Jack pounded his desk; his morning coffee spilled all over the burglary file he had been studying.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“If someone wanted to smuggle Sarin gas into the city, how would they do it? Where are the obvious and less obvious points of entry? How would they weaponize it?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“A white supremacist with a conscience? Why don’t I believe you, Stone?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Come on, Jack. Be reasonable. Let’s run this up the chain of command.”
“Acker will never approve, and even if he does, we would have to deal with some Barney Fife type cop up in Manistee, and he would never agree. I’m screwed either way.”
“Who’s Barney Fife?”
“He’s an old television character…oh…never mind...”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“How does a guy like Bart afford a boat like this? Does bigotry pay that well?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“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

“The enveloping fog was eerie, like a tightening vice, given the possibility of a Sarin gas attack in Dearborn proper. Was the fog a sign of evil about to descend on the city?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“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

“Twenty-five elite law enforcement officers against six racist assholes. Four to one; pretty good odds.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“How could a man “disappear” amidst all those elite law enforcement officials? Would things have been different if we were in charge?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“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

“Dearborn and its’ police department only needs to do what they normally do. A higher level of vigilance is probably wise.”
What we normally do? Handling terrorist threats had become the new normal.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Jack turned from his men and gazed out onto Michigan Avenue. It was a dreary spring day. The nasty weather mirrored how he was feeling after hearing the news of another potential terrorist attack in his beloved city.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Crime scene techs determined that Breitner had escaped underground, through a sewer drain below the warehouse. Smart move, asshole; you planned this escape and let the others take the fall. I will hunt you down, tough guy. I will find you…”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“If I was too busy, I wouldn’t have offered.”
Not too busy-nobody around to torture or murder? I should shoot this bastard right here, right now!”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Let’s just say that I am tired of sharing my city.” Am I speaking your language, asshole?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Your infiltration idea sounds dangerous to me. I say we get Breitner, now. What’s a group without its leader? I’d call in the Feds, sooner than later. Cut off the head of the snake…”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“But this thing can go wrong in so many ways for so many reasons I can’t count them all.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“You could easily identify Blaine’s guys; they looked like white nationalists, but not these Breitner boys. These guys were your next-door neighbors, wife, two-point-five kids, a dog, a nice car, and a house in the ‘burbs.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Sure, wise guy. This ‘catch the bad guys’ stuff is way over the heads of us backwards country cops, right?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Jack Dylan was about to face federal charges for stalking a victim and murdering him. He would probably be charged with murder in the first. If convicted, Jack Dylan faced mandatory life in prison without the possibility of parole. Drastic action was required, and Shaheed knew with absolute certainty the one person he needed to call.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“...in the constant conflict between loyalty and service to policyholders versus loyalty and service to stockholders, the stockholders would emerge victorious every single time... He could not understand, though, how elected officials could take pro-insurance stances against the citizens who elected them. Carriers don’t vote, dammit; people do!”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“We’re still investigating. I’d like to charge him with being a complete asshole.”
“Sounds like Jack,” replied Zack. “But that doesn’t make him a murderer.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“...if the evidence points to his guilt, the fact that he’s a cop won’t mean shit. Murder is murder around these parts, cop or not.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue