Author: Brian Freemantle

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• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Cloud Collector (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The mystery of how he [Osame bin Laden] kept in touch with his followers was at least partly solved yesterday by U. S. intelligence officials... to send an e-mail bin Laden would type a message on his computer, copy it to a flash drive and hand it to a courier who would then drive miles to a distant Internet café. The courier would then send the e-mail from the café, making it all but untraceable.
    FROM: Report of a CIA briefing on how Osama bin Laden controlled Al Qaeda from his Abbottabad, Pakistan, lair, London Times, (2011), Article, US
• Jimmy Carter (1)
  • IN: The Cloud Collector (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I think it's a violation of human rights... It [the use of drones] means you assassinate people without bringing charges, without finding them guilty, and in the process inadvertently causing collateral damage, that is the killing of completely innocent people who might be in the neighborhood.
    FROM: London Times interview, (2012), Interview, UK
• Mikhail Gorbachov (1)
  • IN: The Bearpit (1988) Fiction, Thriller, Spy fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I must say that change is going on not without difficulties. And the main obstacle is mentality, the mentality which has taken shape over the years should be changed. The new is waging battle against the old, sometimes in pointed form.
    FROM: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachov, at a press conference for Indian journalists, November 1986, (1986), Speech, Russia
• Isaac Watts (1)
  • IN: The Bearpit (1988) Fiction, Thriller, Spy fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For ‘tis their nature too
    FROM: Against Quarrelling, (1715), Poem, UK
• George W. Bush (1)
  • IN: Two Women (2003) Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Crime Fiction , British
    EPIGRAPH: We will use the full weight of the law to expose and root out corruption… When abuses like this begin to surface in the corporate world, it is time to reaffirm the basic values that make capitalism work. There can be no capitalism without conscience, no wealth without character.
    FROM: US President George W. Bush, demanding ‘new ethics of personal responsibility’ from American business leaders after a series of Wall Street scandals. 10 July, 2002, (2002), NULL, US
• William Shakespeare (2)
  • IN: The Lost American (1984) Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, British
    EPIGRAPH: I pray you, do not fall in love with me, For I am falser than vows made in wine.
    FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: See Charlie Run (1987) Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, British
    EPIGRAPH: His flight was madness; when our actions do not Our fears do make us traitors.
    FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
• H. W. Longfellow (1)
  • IN: The Mary Celeste (1980) Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, British
    EPIGRAPH: Wouldst thou’ — so the helmsman answered — ‘Learn the secrets of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers comprehend its mystery.
    FROM: The Secrets of the Sea, (1850), Poem, US
• Richard Nixon (1)
  • IN: Here Comes Charlie M (1978) Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, British
    EPIGRAPH: Oh well, this is a can of worms as you know a lot of this stuff that went on. And the people who worked this way are awfully embarrassed … but the way you have handled all this seems to me has been very skilful, putting your fingers in the leaks that have sprung here and sprung there.
    FROM: Former President Richard Nixon to John Dean, his then counsel, September 15, 1972, from the submission of recorded Presidential conversations to the Committee of Judiciary of the House of Representatives., (1972), Conversation, US
• Bible (2)
  • IN: Here Comes Charlie M (1978) Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, British
    EPIGRAPH: His hand will be against every man and every man’s hand against him
    FROM: Genesis, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: The Watchmen (2002) Thriller, Suspense, British
    EPIGRAPH: The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keeper of the walls took away my veil from me.
    FROM: Bible, Song of Solomon, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Oscar Wilde (1)
  • IN: Comrade Charlie (1989) Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, British
    EPIGRAPH: Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heard.Some do it with a bitter look,Some with a flattering word.The coward does it with a kiss,The brave man with a sword.
    FROM: The Ballad of Reading Gaol, (1898), Poem, UK
• Gordon Brown (1)
  • IN: Red Star Rising (2010) Thriller, Suspense, Adventure fiction, Spy fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You cannot have people assassinated on British soil and then discover that we wish to arrest someone who is in another country and not be in a position to do so.
    FROM: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, commenting on July 23, 2007, upon the refusal of then Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin to extradite former KGB agent, Andrei Lugovoy, for trial for the murder in London by radioactive polonium-210 poisoning of former KGB colleague, Alexander Litvinenko, November 23, 2006, (2007), NULL, UK
• Vladimir Putin (1)
  • IN: Red Star Rising (2010) Thriller, Suspense, Adventure fiction, Spy fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: They [Britain] are making proposals to change our constitution that are insulting for our nation and our people. It’s their brains, not our constitution, which needs to be changed. . they forget that Britain is no longer a colonial power and that Russia was never their colony.
    FROM: Then Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin’s rejection of the British extradition request for Andrei Lugovoy, July 25, 2007, (2007), Speech, Russia
• Francis Bacon (1)
  • IN: Dead Men Living (2000) Fiction, Thriller, Spy fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Knowledge Itself is Power.
    FROM: "Of Heresies,” Meditationes Sacrae, Francis Bacon, (1597), NULL, UK
• William Blake (1)
  • IN: In the Name of a Killer (1997) Fiction, Thriller, Spy fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.
    FROM: William Blake, Appendix to Songs of Innocence and of Experience, (1789), Poem, UK
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1)
  • IN: Goodbye to an Old Friend (1973) Thriller, Suspense, British
    EPIGRAPH: Cowards have small possibilities. Fame is not won through silence and cowards out of caution Are at times obliged to show courage. Thus adders hustle to be hawks: sensing the way the wind is blowing, they adapt themselves to courage just as they had adapted themselves to lies.
    FROM: Yevgeny Yevtushenko, ‘Cowards Have Small Possibilities’, 1959., (1959), Poem, Russia