Quotes About Intrigue

He made his way to my table and squeezed in next to me as though it was the most natural thing in the world that he should be meeting me here. As usual, he was wearing a dark suit that fit him like an afterthought. He nodded a greeting. I returned the gesture, then went back to watching Grace play.

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Barry Eisler

I looked at her. Why was it her question seemed suffused with double entendre? She was attractive, of course, more than attractive, but that wasn't all of it. She had a way of looking at me with a sort of confident sexual appreciation, that was it. As though she was seeing me just the way I might hope a desirable woman would see me. And she made it seem so natural, so real. I would have to be careful.

Goddamn it, I thought, at the mention of her name. I just couldn't get clear of these people. They were like cancer. You think you've cut it out, it always comes back.

Diaz moved as though to get out. "No, ma'am," Dox said, scoping the area. "Tell me where the phone is and you stay put. Just in case there are any unfriendlies in the area." "Behind a book called Recursion, by Blake Crouch. Level three. Fiction.

Within an hour we had a visit from a gentleman with shifty eyes and an interesting pattern of knife scars where his nose used to be

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Murder is blue

The ring rolled down the gutter and disappeared into a sewer grate, and there it remained for a long, long time. But not forever. In Derry, things that disappear into the sewer system have a way – an often unpleasant one – of turning up.

Let me close with a word of caution: when you're on the turnpikes and freeways of America, watch out for those Winnebagos and Bounders. You never know who might be inside. Or what.

Or maybe it wasn't a man at all.

Arab terrorist, international hitman, it's all a bit Andy McNab, isn't it?

But there's something about sitting at someone else's desk that makes you feel like looking in the drawers. I resisted the impulse briefly. Then I decided what the hell. I was a private investigator. Poking my nose in where it didn't belong came with the territory.

Nothing like a spider in the mouth to get you thinking.

It's a palindrome. Sator. Arepo. Tenet. Opera. Rotas.

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A crossed Maltese stays cross. – Kastor Cardinal Gallo

What a difference from words on a page, or images on a video screen. Surrounding him was one of the oldest fortresses in England, where men had died defending the walls, and something was happening.

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The Third Secret is a page turner--hard to put down as events keep happening. If you are a fan of The Da Vinci Code you will enjoy this book.

Mirabelle attracts men of a different kind. They are shyer and more reticent. They look at her a long time before approaching, and when they do find something about her that they want, it is something simple within her.

My plan was to walk by on my side of the street and not look over her way. This, I felt, was a very clever masculine move: to meet and ultimately seduce through no contact at all. She would be made aware of me as a mysterious figure, someone with no need of her whatsoever. This is compelling to a woman.