The Lady from Zagreb (Bernard Gunther, #10)

by Philip Kerr

you can use words like important in the same sentence as the French Navy.

You never know with women. What they tell you and what they don’t tell you is a very long bridge across a very wide river with all kinds of fish.

There are some things it’s best not to know.

I’d been in Joey’s office before but I’d forgotten how large it was. Henry Morton Stanley would have thought twice about mounting an expedition to try to find the washroom.

Relaxing was never so stressful.

the portrait of Benito Mussolini—the one with him wearing a black helmet and looking more than a little like a circus daredevil about to be shot out of a cannon,

A herd of cows was seated so casually by a river I half expected them to have brought a picnic basket.

his particular way of life had worked out well for him so far. He couldn’t have seemed more smug if he’d been a bull walrus at the end of a successful mating season.