Author: Steve Martini

Cites

• Winston Churchill (1)
  • IN: Guardian of Lies (2009) Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
    FROM: Popular wartime epigram, (1943), Conversation, UK
• Juvenal (1)
  • IN: Compelling Evidence (1992) Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: This is the first of punishments, that no guilty man is acquitted if judged by himself.
    FROM: Satire no. 13, (127), NULL, Italy
• Thomas Hobbes (1)
  • IN: Double Tap (2005) Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: his is the generation of that great leviathan. . to which we owe. . our peace and defence. For by this authority, given him by every particular man in the commonwealth, he hath the use of so much power and strength conferred on him, that by terror thereof, he is enabled to form the wills of them all, to peace at home, and mutual aid against their enemies abroad.
    FROM: Leviathan, (1651), Book, UK
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Undue Influence (1994) Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: And the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you…
    FROM: Bible, Exodus 12:13, (-165), Bible, NULL