Quotes from Daniel Silva

You know where everything is. You practically live here now." Shamron muttered something in Polish about the ingratitude

ubiquitous green-and-white sign.

QAnon isn't a conspiracy theory. It's a toxic, extremist ideology that borrows heavily from anti-Semitic tropes such as the blood libel and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

five-hundred-gram gold ingots.

Any fool can slide down the mountain, but it takes someone of character and discipline walk up one. - Luigi Donati

the Office is in Tel Aviv.

That's true," said Gabriel. "The American president writes love letters to the ayatollah. And us . . ." He gave an indifferent shrug of his shoulders but said nothing more.

And once, during an Oval Office meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador to Washington, Trump divulged highly classified intelligence supplied by a close ally in the Middle East—intelligence that was so sensitive it was not shared widely within the US government. That Middle Eastern ally was Israel, and the breach reportedly put at risk an operation that had given Israeli intelligence a window on the inner workings of the Islamic State in Syria.

There was a time when novelists wrote narrative and journalists were content to report facts.

He felt suddenly like Winston Smith in Room 101 of the Ministry of Love.

six gun-type bombs, the last such weapons ever built.

The money, as promised, was in the trunk of the general's official

Chiara believed there was no malady that could not be cured by a bit of mineral water or a glass of good red wine.

A politically divided and destabilized America - an America drifting toward white nationalism, authoritarianism, and isolationism - will pose no challenge (...). Page 467.

the Jews of France are swimming against the tide, moving from the West to the most dangerous and volatile region on the planet. They are doing so for one reason only: they feel safer in Israel than they do in Paris, Toulouse, Marseilles, or Nice. Such is the condition of modern France.

The Arab Spring had turned into the Arab Calamity. Radical Islam now controlled a swath of territory that stretched from Afghanistan to Nigeria, an accomplishment that even Bin Laden would have never dreamed possible.

The Society practiced democracy internally, even though most of its members believed it was a rather cumbersome concept in the real world. The Society's founding creed declared peace was dangerous. Its members believed constant controlled global tension served the interests of all. It prevented complacency. It maintained vigilance. It built national identity. And most of all it made them money, a good deal of money.

Warm glazed potatoes with caviar, tapioca, and herbs; yellowfin tuna ribbons with avocado, spicy radish, and ginger marinade; diver scallops with caramelized cauliflower and a caper-raisin emulsion; black sea bass crusted with nuts and seeds, with a sweet-and-sour jus.

The American president had allowed the old order to topple without a viable alternative in place, a reckless act with no precedent in modern statecraft. And for some reason he had chosen this moment in time to throw Israel to the wolves.

the Tsar next to her, grinning and preening at his latest triumph over the West. And just who did he think he was fooling with that starched and pressed face of his? Real fascists, thought Charlotte, did not use Botox.

better. Gabriel shared a few details of the team's many operations together, all unclassified, and hinted at the horrors they had witnessed and the dangers they had faced.

placed on the table next

What's done cannot be undone. —Macbeth (1606), act 5, scene 1

The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic." And it is rapidly taking on many functions of a modern state, issuing its citizenry everything from driver's permits to fishing licenses.