Daniel Silva

“So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life?Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.”

“I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world.”

“I don't have a dark side at all. I just like violence.”

“After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.”

“Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.”

“We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers.”

“He felt as though the bones of his ribcage were snapping beneath the weight of the stone that God had laid over his heart.”

“I loved September 12th. I loved the way - it's awful but, boy, did I love that day when we all came together. All the bickering stopped. All the partisan, cheap partisan warfare stopped.”

“I'm a mild-mannered person.”

“I'm not comfortable around guns.”

“The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.”

“Russia is classic fascism.”

“I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.”