Quotes About Intrigue

Have you ever read The Hollow Man, by John Dickson Carr?

Douglas Preston

She wondered how a guy like Drayton could generate a turnout this big and enthusiastic. There was something about him a certain type of person loved, it seemed. She just couldn't see it.

Douglas Preston

Douglas Preston

Lieutenant D'Agosta

Douglas Preston

Douglas Preston

Pendergast moved with a feline grace, using the waxing moon as his only source of light

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Douglas Preston

Douglas Preston

the southern gothic trappings, the rumors and whispers, were too delicious to ruin with the winter wind of truth.

meant he must have left it in his room. Exactly as Wellstone hoped. A few more people joined the entourage; they milled around outside

Douglas Preston

Then they drove away, split up a few days later, and Mr. Wilkinson established a new identity. He lay low for several years in a remote part of Utah—although I suppose 'a remote part of Utah' is redundant.

Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast.

A huge gap appeared in the side of the mountain. At last a tiny mouse came forth.

While I see many hoof-marks going in, I see none coming out…. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

Ha a történet már-már unalomba fullad, mindig feldobja pár liter vér. Mrs. Oliver

Trudno o co? równie niechwytnego, równie trudnego do zlokalizowania, jak ?ród?o plotki.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.