Quotes from Magdalen Nabb

The trouble with this country is that it's a mass of anarchists and improvisors governed by bandits. pg. 164

MI6, yes.' Though peaceable at the moment, there was an edge to his voice that said he would become dangerous if annoyed. Fusarri did not annoy him. He offered him a cigar and made the Marshal step forward and be introduced, happy in his conviction that no amount of years in the Service would prepare anyone to cope with Guarnaccia's bulging-eyed silences. pg 108