Quillian

“I thought you might be in trouble.’ ‘Yeah. Because crashing a bus would have been a big fucking help if I had been.”
― Mick Herron, Real Tigers

“We’re old friends, so you won’t mind me saying, but you look rough as fuck. Like you were up half the night being gang-banged and the rest writing thank-you notes.”
― Mick Herron, Bad Actors

“There is a topic being left unaddressed, and Belwether is starting to feel his way around its edges, like a man sizing up a hedge, clippers in hand. To such a man, the existence of an article like a microcassette tape, contents unknown, might represent a challenge: Is this to be incorporated into the topiary, or clipped away, bagged and despatched? Soon enough, he feels, the answer will make itself known.”
― Mick Herron, Clown Town

“The fact that you were mortal enemies didn’t mean you couldn’t do business. If that were the case, you’d never get anything done.”
― Mick Herron, Bad Actors