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A German Requiem (Bernie Gunther, #3)

by Philip Kerr

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Oct 02, 2019 08:00PM

“It was difficult not to be intimidated by a crowd, especially at a time when it had attained such skill in the gentle art of tarring and feathering.”
― Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789

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“The notion that the lobby at Langley is choked with the corpses of former agents gunned down by their own colleagues at the behest of genocidal directors on the top floor is amusing but wholly unreal.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Fist of God

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“The first thing I noticed was the gun in his hands, and it wasn’t the sort of gun a beginner carries around with him. A big dull black German Mauser 7.63. One of those economical guns; the bullet goes clear through three people at once.”
― Alistair MacLean, Fear is the Key

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“If you’re really good, they’d taught him at Quantico, you don’t have to be arrogant.”
― Tom Clancy, Patriot Games

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“the idyll was marred by the appearance round the southern headland of a small, waspish-looking vessel, standing slowly out on a course parallel to our own. It happened that I saw her first, and drew my commander’s attention to her with a sailor-like hail of: “Jesus! Look at that!” Spring”
― George MacDonald Fraser, Flash for Freedom!

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