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Tal Bauer: Soul on Fire Tal Bauer: Soul on Fire

A ​deadly virus burns through the jungle, leaving nothing but corpses in its wake. Everyone flees from the outbreak—except for the terrorists intent on weaponizing the catastrophe.

Lieutenant Elliot Davis, US Navy SEAL, is sent to rescue CIA officers from their clandestine base in Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and evacuate them out of the country. What they’ve uncovered sends Elliot back to the Congo, trying to prevent an attack that could spark a global pandemic.

Dr. Ikolo Ngondu runs a refugee hospital caught between the advancing rebels intent on slaughtering everyone in their path and Elliot’s mission to find and capture their leader. In the chaos of a surprise attack, Elliot’s target slips away, and the only way to find him is to plunge into the Congo’s dark, dangerous, and fevered forest with Ikolo as his guide.

Together they track a burning shadow through Africa’s broken heart, and Elliot struggles to reconcile the world he finds with the… (tovább)

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Népszerű idézetek

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Did you fall in love with someone unknown, or did you find the person who completed you and paired your soul to theirs?

Chapter 21

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To be an investigator was to see the world and everyone in it differently, to see cause and effect and to fill in the empty spaces to find truth. To wrestle with the darkness of doubt and bring facts into the light.

Chapter 20

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“I’m dreaming,” he muttered. “A gorgeous man is bringing me food.”
“You’re definitely dreaming. It’s just me, but I do have food.”

Chapter 22

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“Someone once told me,” Kline said, a smile in his voice, “that neutrality becomes complicity. That remaining uninvolved carried the same guilt and shame as actively assisting in perpetuating harm. I shared these thoughts with the president. She agreed.”

Chapter 29

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“‘The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting,’” Bai recited. “Are you familiar?”
“Sun Tzu, the Art of War, yeah.” Elliot still frowned.

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“This is allowed in America?” Ikolo breathed.
Oh, how did he answer that? Yes but no, yes in some ways and not in others. Yes, legally, but the world was still a shitty place and Elliot hadn’t found the space yet where he felt the answer to his question was safe.

Chapter 16

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In the calculus of human life, a life should be equal to another life. One person’s existence was worth the same as another’s. He’d seen and he’d felt the opposite in his life, fuck, he had. He’d always come out on the losing end before: being black, being disregarded, being ignored and unwanted and cast aside. He knew in his bones that the human calculus didn’t add up the right way, but he’d never been on this side of that equation, on the heavy-handed side.

Chapter 17

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“We are used to despair in Africa. Especially here, in the Congo. We’re used to losing everything. It’s you Westerners who aren’t.”

Chapter 17

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“How many African lives equal one American one, Admiral? Is it three-fifths?”

Chapter 17

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“The LRA has aligned with ADF forces in the past—”
“That’s insane. One is a hard-core Islamist group and the other is a fundamentalist Christian personality cult.”
“This is Africa. They both hate the same things: America and everything Western. That makes them allies.”

Chapter 18


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