Quotes from Daniel Silva

You know, Graham, sometimes revenge is good for the soul. – Jonathan Lancaster

Volodya being an accidental president, do you, Allon? It was a straight KGB operation from beginning to end. Nothing was left to chance.

the meal: that he had the

He who has two women lose his soul. But he who has two homes loses his mind. – ancient proverb

Such was life in the Islamic caliphate, bombs falling upon severed heads, in a park where children once played. It

Since when has your team ever functioned smoothly? You're Israelis. You fight with one another constantly. - Sarah Bancroft

the further we are from our last disaster, the closer we are to our next.

You would have a better chance of slowing the rise of the seas than bringing democracy to Russia.

the looting began—a wild orgy of self-dealing, kickback schemes, siphoning, embezzlement, protection rackets, tax fraud, and outright theft that enriched the men around the new president.

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ISIS doesn't crucify only because it is cruel. It crucifies because, according to the Koran, crucifixion is one of the proscribed punishments for the enemies of Islam. It crucifies because it must. We civilized Westerners find this almost impossible to comprehend.

sautéed mushrooms and tomatoes in olive oil and fresh local herbs, then stirred in three beaten eggs and added some grated cheese.

According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, forty-nine media professionals have been killed in Russia since 1992. Only in Iraq and Algeria have more died in the line of duty during the same period. This, too, is a Russian tragedy.

it's that everyone has a price.

Sabiam que andavam a ser caçados e tentavam não se manter muito tempo no mesmo sítio. Mas o medo tornava-os descuidados. O medo tornava-os alvos fáceis.

The truly powerful man, said Shamron never had to ask for a favor.

A nuclear bomb can only be dropped once. But money can be wielded every day with no fallout and no threat of mutually assured destruction.

adopted the spare prose of a journalist, with an emphasis on time, date, and place

French and Swiss villages existed side by side along a largely invisible border, but Switzerland did not wish to wipe France from the map. Nor did the Swiss beseech their sons to shed the blood of French infidels. Gradually

Gabriel hurried upstairs and collected a prepacked suitcase with three days' worth of clothing and kit. Thirty minutes later he carried the bag up the airstair of his Gulfstream jet. It departed Ben Gurion Airport at 7:05 a.m., bound for the flashing red warning light once known as the world's beacon of democracy.

It was a crude and unsophisticated country, she thought, always lurching from crisis to crisis, seemingly unaware of the fact its power was fading.

Only the spoon," replied the don , "knows the pot's sorrows.

Patience was not an American virtue.

There was a time with novelists wrote narrative and journalists were content to report facts. And the facts are quite simple. There exists in the world today an organize force that seeks to weaken or even destroy the West through acts of indiscriminate violence. This force is part of a broader radical movement to impose sharia law and restore the Islamic Caliphate. And no amount of wishful thinking will make it go away. - Adrian Carter