Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

by James S.A. Corey

“Just part of the donkey show.” “Dog and pony,” Holden said. Then, seeing her reaction. “The phrase is dog and pony show.” “Sure it is,” she said.

I'm ashamed I got the joke.

That’s the thing about autocracy. It looks pretty decent while it still looks pretty decent. Survivable, anyway. And it keeps looking like that right up until it doesn’t. That’s how you find out it’s too late.

Don’t be a whiny little cunt, Avasarala said in his imagination. Hope in one hand and shit in the other. See which one fills up first. Get to work.

This was the problem with thousand-year Reichs. They came and they went like fireflies.

Brazil Nova

Brazil NOVO

Kelly looked like Trejo had just asked him to put his hand in a meat grinder to see if it was running. For a moment, Elvi thought the man would