John MacRae > Quotes

“chair.”
― John MacRae, The Complete Vengeance Man Series

“Tom Mallalieu had made that plain when he hired me”
― John MacRae, The Hit List

“Mallalieu pulled a face. "Neither do I. But that's beside the point. While these happy masses are being kept sweet with free dole hand outs, benefits, council housing, a Health Service full of artificial jobs and all that nonsense, the real world still goes on outside. You can't run a modern state on bread and circuses.”
― John MacRae, The Vengeance Man

“Nothing. I was holding the torch on the safe for Tony to do the lock.’ The other two nodded in agreement. Fritz spoke up; ‘Exactly what did you do?’ ‘Jumped him and chinned him. Heel of my hand.”
― John MacRae, The Vengeance Man Omnibus

“sudden flash of insight that Saïd would have someone to keep his pillow warm that night, even if she didn’t look a day over fourteen. And probably every night. Life in exile was not quite as bad as it seemed.”
― John MacRae, In The Name of the Queen

“few cards with the Adjutant General personally. We were at the Staff College”
― John MacRae, The Hit List

“One of them I noticed was a well-known right wing newspaper columnist who was for ever ranting on about morality and the family.”
― John MacRae, The Vengeance Man Omnibus