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Phantom (Harry Hole, #9)

by Jo Nesbø (Goodreads Author)

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“Our editor, Harry Combs did not suffer fools gladly, although he insisted we cater to the fools that read the newspaper.”
― James Aura, The Cumberland Killers: A Kentucky Mystery

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“You’re supposed to be objective. What use is the news if it’s not objective?”
― James Aura, The Cumberland Killers: A Kentucky Mystery

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“Your simulated neocortex is in a quantum computer in an underground bunker a mile north of here. Stay away from it.”
― James Aura, The Hurricane Code

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“First came the wail of a siren across the valley, and then because light travels faster than blood, we saw an explosion, and a second later we felt it and heard the ear-splitting blast.”
― James Aura, The Cumberland Killers: A Kentucky Mystery

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“People think man is cruel. Hey, what about the child of man? There ain’t nothing meaner than some little deranged six-year-old sadistic motherfucker loose in a playground. You think a person’s got to be grown before he’s a maniac? Shit.”
― Larry Brown, Dirty Work

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