Author: Duane Swierczynski

Cites

• The Matys Brothers (2)
  • IN: Revolver (2016) Mystery Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Who stole the keeshka? Someone call a cop
    FROM: Who Stole the Keeshka?, (1963), Song, US
• Lord Byron (1)
  • IN: Secret Dead Men (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.
    FROM: Letter to Thomas Moore, (1817), Letter, UK
• Dante Alighieri (4)
  • IN: Fun and Games (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Che sempre l’omo in cui pensier rampolla sovra pensier, da sé dilunga il segno perché la foga l’un de l’altro insolla.
    FROM: Purgatorio, canto 5, lines 16–18, (1472), Poem, Italy
  • IN: Hell and Gone (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ma prima avea ciascun la lingua stretta coi denti, verso lor duca, per cenno; ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta.
    FROM: Inferno, canto 21, lines 137–39, (1472), Poem, Italy
  • IN: Point and Shoot (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tu proverai sì come sa di sale lo pane altrui, e come è duro calle lo scendere e 'l salir per l'altrui scale
    FROM: Paradise, (1472), Poem, Italy
  • IN: Point & Shoot (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tu proverai sì come sa di sale lo pane altrui, e come è duro calle lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale
    FROM: Paradiso, Canto XVII, lines 58-60, (1472), Poem, Italy
• LL Cool J (1)
  • IN: Fun and Games (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You’re the type of guy that gets suspicious I’m the type of guy that says, “The puddin is delicious."
    FROM: I’m That Kind of Guy, (1989), Song, US
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Fun and Games (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
    FROM: Popular Saying, (None), Saying, NULL
• Frank Stallone (1)
  • IN: Hell and Gone (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Save me darlin’ I am down but I am far from over
    FROM: "Far From Over", (1983), Song, US
• Tim O’Brien (1)
  • IN: Hell and Gone (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She had crossed to the other side. She was part of the land. She was wearing her culottes, her pink sweater, and a necklace of human tongues.
    FROM: The Things They Carried, (1990), Book, US
• Raymond Chandler (1)
  • IN: The Blonde (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
    FROM: "Farewell, My Lovely", (1940), Novel, US/England
• Anonymous (1)
  • IN: Severance Package (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Pleasure doing business with you.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Al Nussbaum (2)
  • IN: The Wheelman (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I didn’t reform, I lost my nerve. I still think it’s sensible to want money and if you want money it has to be sensible to go where they have it and make them give you some.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
  • IN: The Wheel Man (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I didn't reform, I lost my nerve. I still think it's sensible to want money and if you want money it has to be sensible to go where they have it and make them give you some.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA}, US
• Joseph Moncure March (1)
  • IN: Expiration Date (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: WELL— SO IT GOES: TIME HITS THE HARDEST BLOWS.
    FROM: The Set-Up, (1928), Poem, US
• The Hooters (2)
  • IN: Point and Shoot (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And if you still can't see the light God's gonna buy you a satellite
    FROM: Satellite, (1987), Song, US
  • IN: Point & Shoot (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And if you still can't see the light God's gonna buy you a satellite
    FROM: "Satellite", (1987), Song, US