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Quotes About Undercover

The man with the jeans and the hair looked back at Westwood and said, "Mr. Torrance, I guess our first question would be whether you're wearing a wire.
~ Lee Child
I was working on a money-laundering issue. There was a lot of cash and a mazy chain of shell corporations, like always, but I had the guy.
~ Lee Child
Their work was undercover—yet their existence unconcealed. That is how fear works.
~ Lindsey Davis
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~ Aldous Huxley
When I'm in the U.K. - and I'm here more than people would think - I tend to keep a very low profile.
~ Orlando Bloom
While I was on an undercover assignment in Texas, I met my wife, Kelly.
~ Frank Abagnale
For official purposes, these children do not exist.
~ Robert Muchamore
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
~ Roberto Bolano
Under that smiling exterior," Casey said ominously as we took our seats, "lies the soul of a ruthless killer.
~ Robin Brande
To adduce proof that the husky, straw-hatted young man in gabardine who tailed me the whole next month was an F.B.I. operative is impossible, nor can I swear that my mail was fluoroscoped during that period. I do know that for a while I underwent all the tremors of a Graham Greene character on the run, even if it had no purificatory effect on my religious views. When
~ S.J Perelman
A good thief goes unseen. A truly great one merely goes unnoticed. She
~ Joe Abercrombie
He doesn't look like much,' said Tallow. 'He'd be a poor assassin if he stood out.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I've always dreamt of having some sort of undercover job. I think it's probably the coolest thing in the world, but ultimately a very lonely life.
~ Rashida Jones
During the Cold War, there was a theory. That one agent, in the right place, at the right time...with the right skills...could be more effective than an army.
~ Ed Brubaker
Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak was a bit like watching a badly dubbed film. "Alex Gardiner," Alex said. "Your real name?" "I just told you." "You lied. Your real name is Alex Rider." "Why ask if you think you know?
~ Anthony Horowitz
'Day Men' provides a magnificent challenge in that it deals with a secret society within a secret society.
~ Brian Stelfreeze
I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.
~ Powers Boothe
Once when I was a fugitive, I was working for a law firm in Denver.
~ Kevin Mitnick
11 Clowns Undercover
~ Franklin W. Dixon
'Donnie Brasco' was 85 percent on the money. The only thing that they slanted was my feelings for Lefty and Sonny', and this idea that I didn't want to go through with seeing them in jail. I was never swayed. There was no conflict.
~ Joseph D. Pistone
The deep-cover team had chosen the apartment building because it was the biggest along Feaver's route to and from the office. Large was better, more an ominous. Living undercover, she was supposed to avoid making new acquaintances, since even the friendliest inquiries my trip you up
~ Scott Turow
She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.
~ Scott Westerfeld
His secret-agentry was over, but he had by this time gone so long in disguise indetectably as a member of his family that by slow stages he had actually become one.
~ John Crowley
I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.
~ Edward Snowden