Athena Porter

“But The Preacher operated on the theory that if you told a big enough lie often enough, people would accept it as the truth.”
― Ed McBain, Kiss

“We got enough champagne here to start a France.”
― Ed McBain, 'Til Death

“Long before any genius producer began singing the blues on an imaginary hill in an unnamed city where a mix of a dozen or so cops came and went in what was known to script writers as “the usual squadroom boil,” Cop Hater set the tone and the pattern for a police series in which—so far as I was concerned—there were no restrictions on content or style.”
― Ed McBain, The Pusher