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Average rating: 3.7 · 961 ratings · 136 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	Triple Crossing (Valentine Pescatore #1) 3.68 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 2011 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pakistan and the Mumbai Attacks: The Untold Story 3.91 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Convert's Song (Valentine Pescatore #2) 3.45 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Finding Oscar: Massacre, Memory, and Justice in Guatemala by Sebastian Rotella (Goodreads Author), Ana Arana, Francisco Goldman 3.82 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rip Crew (Valentine Pescatore #3) 3.66 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2018 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twilight on the Line: Underworlds and Politics at the Mexican Border 3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Convert's Song: A Novel it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trafiquants & associés by Sebastian Rotella (Goodreads Author), Françoise Bouillot (Translator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Triple Crossing: A Novel] [Author: Rotella, Sebastian] [August, 2012] by Sebastian Rotella (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	(Triple Crossing) By Rotella, Sebastian (Author) Hardcover on 10-Aug-2011 by Sebastian Rotella (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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My City of Ruins
Bruce Springsteen

There’s a blood red circle on the cold dark ground
And the rain is falling down
The church door’s thrown open, I can hear the organ’s song
But the congregation’s gone
My city of ruins
My city of ruins

Now the sweet bells of mercy drift through the evening trees
Young men on the corner like scattered leaves
The boarded up windows, the empty streets
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Sebastian Rotella shared a quote “Cusan was a committed writer: as a result, he fell into profound consternation at finding himself embroiled in those secrets, those dangers. But he was an honest man, a loyal friend: and after having tried with every angle and every weak point to topple that castle of impressions, of deductions, of theories, he accepted that he had entered it alongside Rogas: as in a labyrinth, they had to find a thread to lead them out. And there was a thread at hand: and it was to escape by forgetting. In their thoughts, they brushed it several times, both of them were on the verge of clutching it. The pleasures of the place, the food, the wine; the good and dear paternal and maternal images repeating, “Who’s forcing you to do it?’’, that two millenniums of the nation’s history made prophetic and fateful; the memories of carefree youth that returned whenever they met; the yearning for things yet to be understood, places yet to explore, books yet to be read, in the prospective maturity and serenity t ...more Leonardo Sciascia
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“That's what happens. Governments fuck you around. People fuck you around. By the time they're done, you don't know who you are. Especially if you weren't sure to begin with.”
― Sebastian Rotella

tags: government-abuse, taking-advantage-of-someone

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“We all have had inconvenient friends.”
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“In conversation, he came off as if he was enjoying a private joke at your expense. When he sang, though, he sounded as if he believed every word with all his heart. And it became hard to dislike him.”
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tags: likeability, singing-with-your-heart

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“Tell the story of your village. If you tell it well, you will have told the story of the world.”
― Andrea Camilleri

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“La sicurezza del potere si fonda sull'insicurezza dei cittadini.”
― Leonardo Sciascia, Il cavaliere e la morte

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“Dans ce vaste pays qu’il avait tant aimé, il était seul.”
― Albert Camus, Exile and the Kingdom

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“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”
― Raymond Chandler

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“The game is afoot.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Abbey Grange - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story