Quotes About Intrigue

He was still telling himself to calm down, patting his pockets for a Tootsie Pop—something he hadn't done all week—when he went into the closet and found Goldilocks surrounded by piles of his clothes and possessions, each pile organized and labeled with handwritten descriptions.

The next time I met Ulrich, he asked me: "Do you know what sookin sin is?" I

I am thinking,' he remarked quietly, 'whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

Progetti, sbuffò Gauss. Chiacchiere, piani, intrighi. Tiritere con dieci prìncipi e cento accademie prima di poter appoggiare un barometro da qualche parte. Quella non era scienza. Ah, esclamò Humboldt, e cos'era allora la scienza? Gauss tirò dalla pipa. Un uomo da solo seduto alla sua scrivania. Un foglio di carta, tutt'al più un cannocchiale davanti alla finestra con un cielo terso. E quest'uomo che non si arrende fino a quando non capisce. Forse quella era scienza.

Žena je imala tanane, prili?no izvijene obrve. Haljina joj je otkrivala le?a i Gaus se pitao kako bi bilo pritisnuti usne na njih.

Two minutes after she entered the building, a light appeared in a third-floor window. A rapid check of a government property database indicated that the unit in question was owned by an Isabel Brenner, a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany. A further check revealed that she served as a compliance officer in the Zurich office of RhineBank AG, otherwise known as the world's dirtiest bank

Daniel Silva

For a man of the secret world, you have a rather famous face.

I am a spy," Carter said, relighting his pipe. I lie as a matter of course. So do you.

Islamic Jihad. Burdened with two heavy cases filled with electronic gear, he greeted Sarah with an unambiguously frigid kiss. Eli Lavon would later describe it as

In the Middle East, people of discretion are either spies or terrorists. - Nadia al-Bakari

Daniel Silva

Walther PPK from the pocket of his overcoat and gave it to Gabriel. "Thank you, Mr. Bond." "It's easy to conceal and packs quite a punch.

the organs of Russian state security rarely murder someone without a plan to cast the blame on someone else.

They were racing westward along the A89 Autoroute, the chief of the Israeli secret intelligence service and the future king of Saudi Arabia.

The Dar al-Jawasis. The House of Spies.

But it was also a face of many layers. Sensuous and vulnerable, contemptuous and iron-willed. Somewhere a trace of sadness. But it was her energy—her restless, reckless energy—that intrigued him the most and would have been most difficult to capture on canvas. Her eyes flashed about him. Even after the long rehearsal session, her hands could not remain quiet. They

I can be whoever you want me to be: CIA, FBI, DIA, an agency so fucking secret you've never heard of it before." -Gabriel Allon

Who the *&^$* is "Paolo"?

Galeotto was the book and he that wrote it; that day we read in it no farther.

Nora said: 'I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice and know such fascinating people.

Dashiell Hammett

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.