Author: Chris Ryan

Cites

• Mark Twain (1)
  • IN: Who Dares Wins (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
    FROM: Following the Equator, (1897), Book, US
• NULL (3)
  • IN: The Watchman (2001) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He kitenga kanohi, He hokinga whakaaro. (To see a face is to stir the memory.)
    FROM: NULL, (None), Maori Proverb, New Zealand
  • IN: Osama (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When the decision to assassinate has been reached, the tactics of the operation must be planned, based upon an estimate of the situation similar to that used in military operations.’
    FROM: From declassified CIA manual ‘A Study of Assassination’, (1953), [NA], US
  • IN: Hunter Killer (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all.”
    FROM: Japanse Proverb, (None), Proverb, Japan
• Peter de la Billière (1)
  • IN: The One That Got Away (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You have personally made SAS history.
    FROM: General Peter de la Billière, Director of UK Special Forces, Commander in Chief British Forces, (None), [NA], UK
• Bel Kelland (1)
  • IN: Flash Flood (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ‘I know you’re probably sick of environmentalists like me banging on about global warming. The sea level rising and all that rubbish. But think of it this way. You know the Thames Barrier? You know that without it a lot of central London would be under water? Well, in twenty-five years’ time, if you don’t build a much bigger Thames Barrier, London will be under water anyway. That’s what rising sea levels mean. ‘Twenty-five years; it’s not long, is it? Or, if you’re really unlucky with the weather, it could be twenty-five minutes.’
    FROM: Dr Bel Kelland, environmentalist, News Focus, August 2006, (2006), Book, NULL
• Sarah Ryan (1)
  • IN: Stand By, Stand By (1996) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: As the knights fight in the hall, people stand by the wall. Jokers joke whilst people poke at one another. Shrieking sounds down below where cellars glow. The King sits on his throne when people groan. The Lady who wears silver threads lives in dread of the spider and the dead.
    FROM: NULL, (1996), NULL, NULL
• Chris Ryan (1)
  • IN: Tenth Man Down (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I would have none think that I call them thieves The freebooter ventures both life and limb, Good wife, and bairn, and every other thing; He must do so, or else must starve and die, For all his livelihood comes of the enemie.
    FROM: The Border Reiver’s Philosophy, (1999), Author, UK
• Henry David Thoreau (1)
  • IN: Firefight (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I do not wish to kill or be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which both these things would be by me unavoidable.'
    FROM: A Plea for Captain John Brown, (1860), Essay, US
• Barack Obama (1)
  • IN: Osama (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ‘We will kill bin Laden. We will crush Al-Qaeda.’
    FROM: NULL, (2008), Speech, US
• W. Bush, George (1)
  • IN: Killing for the Company (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I believe that God wants everybody to be free. That’s what I believe. And that’s one part of my foreign policy.
    FROM: Third Presidential Debate, (2004), Speech, US
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Killing for the Company (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: To the end there shall be war.
    FROM: Bible, The Book of Daniel, (-150), Bible, NULL

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• Chris Ryan (1)
  • IN: Tenth Man Down (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I would have none think that I call them thieves The freebooter ventures both life and limb, Good wife, and bairn, and every other thing; He must do so, or else must starve and die, For all his livelihood comes of the enemie.
    FROM: The Border Reiver’s Philosophy, (1999), Author, UK