The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. - Eric Ambler

Power is for the powerful. Let power fall into the hands of the weak and the rest is tyranny.

Latimer turned to watch the subject of these reflections carefully, almost lovingly, adjusting the coffee percolator, and thought how difficult it was to dislike a man when he was making coffee for you.

It came down to this: if I hadn't been arrested by the Turkish police, I would have been arrested by the Greek police. I had no choice but to do what this man Harper told me. He was entirely responsible for what happened to me.