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“Few would have seen Solomon and realised they were looking at one of wartime London’s top gangsters. With his receding hairline, thick-lenses spectacles, sober tie and dark two-piece suit, he resembled a local bank manager, accountant or shop owner.”
― Mark Ellis, Death of an Officer

tags: atrocities, entertaining, facts, fiction, historical-fiction, lies, literature, secrets, war, wartime

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“Death rides on all of our shoulders from the day we are born.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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“Of course, during the centuries the justice was always a rather elastic term, but always till now and “everywhere the justice is the same thing – the usefully for the stronger” (Plato, The Republic).”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: civil-society, class-inequality, democrats, dictatorship, oppression, political, political-system, scientific-socialism, socialism, unity

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“Er sah auf sie herab und wusste, dass sie tot war. Aber dabei war ihm, als könne er ihr später erzählen, dass er sie tot in der Badewanne gefunden hatte, und mit ihr darüber reden. Als sei sie nur mal eben tot, nicht für lange, nicht für immer.”
― Bernhard Schlink, Die Enkelin

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