Terynce’s Reviews > A Case of Exploding Mangoes > Status Update

Eh. I'll finish for book club; otherwise, I would have stopped sooner.

"Any man who has the ability to read a newspaper cannot have the will to throw himself between you and your assassin's bullet," said Brigadier TM.

"The fumbling failure of that first night, he knew, had resulted in a marriage in which his authority was never fully established. Twenty-three years later, the morning after his midnight coup, he knew the meaning of the proverb. He intended to kill the cat, bury it and hoist his flag over its grave. He just wasn't quite sure how he would go about it."

"Anybody who breaks down at the sheer volume of this should stay in his little village and tend his father's goats or should study biology and become a doctor and then they can have all the bloody peace and quiet they want. Because as a soldier, noise is the first thing you learn to defend yourself against, and as an officer noise is the first weapon of attack you learn to use."