Status Updates From The Bourne Identity (Jason ...

Jesus christ
This might possibly be one of the worst books I’ve ever read - sorry, stopped reading. Life is too short, I will not be spending my precious time anymore with the terrible prose and ridiculous structure of detail.
I will take the hit of being called ill-read, but this is going on the shelved pile only to be read if at gunpoint or stuck on a desert island.

“You’d better take a closer look at your chauffeur and the adjutant.”
“Preposterous! Their loyalty is beyond question.”
"So was Brutus’, and Caesar outranked you.”
"You can’t be serious.”
“I’m goddamned serious."

😂😂😂

“He’d simply deny it, [Jason]. He’d say it’s outrageous.”
“Let him. It isn’t. That was his number in Lavier’s office. Besides, any retraction will be on the same page as his obituary.”

(Damn, that's cold)

Great thriller

“I loathe him. He stands for everything I hate in Washington. The right schools, houses in Georgetown, farms in Virginia, quiet meetings at their clubs. They’ve got their tight little world and you don’t break in—they run it all. The bastards. The superior, self-inflated gentry of Washington."

"Congressman Efrem Walters, out of the hills of Tennessee by way of the Yale Law Review, was not to be dismissed with facile circumlocution that dealt with the esoterica of clandestine manipulations. Bullshit was out."

(I've seen a few people comment on how ludlum supposedly uses words incorrectly, but so far, I haven't really seen that. Words have more than one meaning, you know.)