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Long before the John Travolta film of The General's Daughter (which the author extols in the foreword), Nelson DeMille's seventh mystery was the breakout hit of his career. The rapid-fire dialogue and scenes are cinematic, and the storytelling puts most movies to shame. The book has three... read more
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- Cynthia: Add a description of this character.
- Captain Campbell
- Paul Brenner
- Mrs. Fowler
- Paul Brenner
- Karl
- Ms. Sunhill
- Casey
- Hellmann
- Bill Kent
- Burt Yardley
- Dalbert Elkins
- Grace Dixon
- St. John
- Baker
- Wes Yardley
- Bethany Hill
- Cal Seiver
- Ms. Kiefer
- Charles Moore
- Robbins
- Colonel Kent
- William Kent
- Weems
- Bowes
- Chief Yardley
- Bollinger
- Hadley
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“In fact he's rather tight-assed, and if you put a lump of coal up his butt, he'd produce a diamond within a week.”
Paul Brenner
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.—Nietzsche.
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if you have your head up your ass, four of your five senses aren’t working.
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Somehow, amid all the sophistication and diversions of this world, we forgot the basics: take care of business at home first, and never betray your blood.
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Geniuses don’t seem to have much tolerance for people who annoy them, or hinder them, and they tend to think they are not subject to the same rules of behavior as the mass of humanity. They are often unhappy and impatient people, and they can also be sociopaths, and sometimes psychopaths who see themselves as judge and jury and, now and then, as executioner, which is when they come to my attention.
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How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.
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“Nietzsche. Yes. In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.”
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“I think we opened a Pandora’s box, took out a can of worms, and threw it at a hornet’s nest.”
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It goes like this—‘Compared to shame, death is nothing.’
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Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees. It works fine if people stick to their fated roles. But nobody does, so you have six or seven good months, then you discover exactly what it is you hate about each other, then you run the moving-in and unpacking tape in reverse and watch the door slam.
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Or, as Plato said, “Only the dead have seen an end to war.”
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First Sentence edit
"Is this seat taken?" I asked the attractive young woman sitting by herself in the lounge.
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- Nelson DeMille (Author)
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Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 1992
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Page Count: 464
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Publication Date: 1992
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Page Count: 464
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- Dewey: 813
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