Christopher

“Gaston Ferrulio, who exalted in the nickname of the Iron End, was one of the youngest and simultaneously one of the strongest: ambitious, pushy, heedless of traditions that let his seniors sink into decadent complacency. At thirty years, he cut a trim figure, thin face barbered to a point and wearing a robe of green slit down the middle to show well-turned legs. He was known as a duelist in his own right, lucky in games of chance, farsighted in games of strategy and absolutely the worst man in the Barrio to make an enemy of.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Made Things

“Her own workbench in the Barrio was the result of years of scrimping, saving, handcrafting and outright theft, and she had thought herself quite the well-equipped artisan for her own small trade. Now she felt such a deep, deep jealousy, an envy of the soul like acid in her, because if she had owned something like this, then what might she not have accomplished?”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Made Things

“stealing more from the poor than from the rich—squeezing the working man with invisible taxes and tributes, demoralizing and enslaving the young with drugs and insidiously corruptive pleasures, cannibalizing industry and victimizing both retailers and consumers,”
― Don Pendleton, Continental Contract

“A man’s character is his fate,” said Heraclitus,”
― Don Pendleton, Caribbean Kill