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“Some people call her the Beautiful Death.”
― James Patterson, Ambush

“It lined up behind a 747 bound for Tokyo the way a mouse lines up behind an elephant.”
― Lee Child, Running Blind

“Frederick A. Murphy, a virologist who had helped to identify Marburg virus. He was and is one of the world’s leading electron-microscope photographers of viruses. (His photographs of viruses have been exhibited in art museums.)”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone

“Her lover was, of all things, a Turkish physics professor at Mount Saint Mary College, a diminutive, balding man in his fifties who sounded and even looked sort of like the Count from Sesame Street. Even now, McDonald sometimes closed his eyes to see the Muppet laughing at him. “I slept with your wife one, two, three, four times. Ah-ha-hah!”
― James Patterson, I, Michael Bennett