Author: Lincoln And Preston, Douglas Child

Cites

• Edward (Blackbeard) Teach (1)
  • IN: Riptide (1998) Fiction, Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: Such a day, rum all out:—Our company somewhat sober:—A damned confusion amongst us!—Rogues a-plotting:—Great talk of separation—so I looked sharp for a prize:—Such a day took one, with a great deal of liquor on board, so kept the company hot, damned hot; then all things went well again.
    FROM: from the logbook of Edward Teach, aka Black beard, ca. 1718, (1718), Book, NULL
• Kakuzo Okakura (1)
  • IN: Reliquary (1997) Fiction, Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: We listen to the unspoken, we gaze upon the unseen.
    FROM: The Book of Tea, (1906), Essay, Japan
• Susan and Sinsheimer, Robert L. Wright (1)
  • IN: Mount Dragon (1996) Fiction, Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: One window upon Apocalypse is more than enough.
    FROM: Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, (1983), NULL, NULL
• Aeschylus (1)
  • IN: The Obsidian Chamber (2016) Fiction, Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: Even in our sleep pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until in our own despair against our will comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
    FROM: Aeschylus, Agamemnon, as paraphrased by Robert F. Kennedy, (1968), NULL, Greece