Author: Daniel Silva

Cites

• Heinrich Müller (2)
  • IN: A Death in Vienna (2003) Fiction, Spy fiction, Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: In a place where wood is chopped, splinters must fall, and there is no avoiding this.
    FROM: NULL, (1942), NULL, Germany
• Richard Helms (2)
  • IN: A Death in Vienna (2003) Fiction, Spy fiction, Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: We’re not in the Boy Scouts. If we’d wanted to be in the Boy Scouts, we would have joined the Boy Scouts.
    FROM: Former Cia Director, (1954), [NA], US
• NULL (3)
  • IN: The English Assassin (2002) Fiction, Spy fiction, Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: gnome (nōm)n.Folklore any of a race of small, misshapen, dwarflike beings, supposed to dwell in the earth and guard its treasures
    FROM: Webster's New World Dictionary, (1951), Definition, NULL
  • IN: The Black Widow (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The black flags will come from the East, led by mighty men, with long hair and beards, their surnames taken from their home towns.
    FROM: The Hadith, (None), Religious Text, NULL
  • IN: The English Girl (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He who lives an immoral life dies an immoral death.
    FROM: Corsican Proverb, (None), Proverb, Corsica
• Jean Ziegler (1)
  • IN: The English Assassin (2002) Fiction, Spy fiction, Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: Suppressing the past is a tradition in Switzerland.
    FROM: The Swiss, The Gold and the Dead, (1997), Book, Switzerland
• NZ (1)
  • IN: Prince of Fire (2005) Fiction, Spy fiction, Crime Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you live to seek revenge, dig a grave for two.
    FROM: Ancient Jewish Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Laurent Murawiec (1)
  • IN: The Messenger (2006) Fiction, Spy fiction, Crime Fiction, Mystery, Thriller , American
    EPIGRAPH: The Saudis are active at every level of the terror chain, from planners to financiers, from cadre to foot soldier, from ideologist to cheerleader.
    FROM: RAND Corporation, (2002), [NA], France
• Dore Gold (1)
  • IN: The Messenger (2006) Fiction, Spy fiction, Crime Fiction, Mystery, Thriller , American
    EPIGRAPH: Unless the ideological roots of the hatred that led to September 11 are addressed, the war on terrorism will not be won. It will be only a matter of time before the next Osama bin Laden emerges.
    FROM: Hatred’s Kingdom, (2003), Book, Israel
• SHEIKH MUHAMMAD BIN ABD AL-RAHMAN AL-ARIFI (1)
  • IN: The Messenger (2006) Fiction, Spy fiction, Crime Fiction, Mystery, Thriller , American
    EPIGRAPH: We will control the land of the Vatican. We will control Rome and introduce Islam in it.
    FROM: Imam of the mosque at the King Fahd Defense Academy, (2003), [NA], Saudi Arabia
• St Augustine of Hippo (1)
  • IN: The Confessor (2003) Fiction, Crime Fiction, Mystery, Thriller , American
    EPIGRAPH: "Roma locuta est; causa finita est." Rome has spoken; the case is closed.
    FROM: Sermon 131, (417), Speech, Algeria
• Bernard Lewis (1)
  • IN: The Secret Servant (2007) Fiction, Crime Fiction, Mystery, Thriller , American
    EPIGRAPH: On present demographic trends, by the end of the twenty-first century at the latest, Europe will be Muslim.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US/England
• Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller (1)
  • IN: The Secret Servant (2007) Fiction, Crime Fiction, Mystery, Thriller , American
    EPIGRAPH: The threat is serious, is growing and will, I believe, be with us for a generation. It is a sustained campaign, not a series of isolated incidents. It aims to wear down our will to resist.
    FROM: Director General of M15, (2006), Speech, UK
• Robert Baer (1)
  • IN: The Secret Servant (2007) Fiction, Crime Fiction, Mystery, Thriller , American
    EPIGRAPH: If you send a prisoner to Jordan, you get a better interrogation. If you send a prisoner, for instance, to Egypt, you will probably never see him again.
    FROM: As Quoted by STEPHEN GREY IN Ghost Plane, (2006), Conversation, US
• Machiavelli (1)
  • IN: The Defector (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
    FROM: The Prince, (1532), Book, Italy
• De Balzac, Honore (1)
  • IN: The Rembrandt Affair (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
    FROM: “La Comédie Humaine” / “The Human Comedy”/ “Le Père Goriot”, (1848), NULL, France
• ANWAR AL-AWLAKI, AL-QAEDA PREACHER AND RECRUITER (1)
  • IN: Portrait of a Spy (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Jihad is becoming as American as apple pie and as British as afternoon tea.
    FROM: NULL, (2010), [NA], Yemen/US
• Elie Wiesel (1)
  • IN: Portrait of a Spy (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One person of integrity can make a difference, a difference of life and death.
    FROM: Elie Wiesel’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1986, (1986), Speech, US/Romania
• Muriel Spark (1)
  • IN: The Black Widow (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.
    FROM: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, (1961), Novel, UK