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A German Requiem (Bernie Gunther, #3)

by Philip Kerr

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Oct 02, 2019 08:00PM

“Alex, drunk or sober, made no distinction between the hours of day and night, nor did the operations he knew so well, for there was no night and day where his work was concerned. There was only the flat light of fluorescent tubes in offices that never closed.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy

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“I should have known better, of course. Whenever I’m feeling up to the mark and congratulating myself, some fearful fate trips me headlong, and I find myself haring for cover with my guts churning and Nemesis in full cry after me.”
― George MacDonald Fraser, Flash for Freedom!

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“Now, in my experience there is only one way to fight a ship, and that is to get below on the side opposite to the enemy and find a snug spot behind a stout bulkhead.”
― George MacDonald Fraser, Flash for Freedom!

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“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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