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'They  needed  a man  with  no  prior  history  with  the agency,  one  with  not  only  a  cover  to  explain  his presence  in  Cuba  but  his  recruitment  of  Cubans  to return  to  the  United  States.  Above  all,  he  must  be  a  master  of persuasion.  The  chosen  candidate  for  the  task was  Jim  Jones.'

'When I look back on my life, which is something you do when you’re my age and realistically shouldn’t be alive, it’s miraculous that my philosophy has worked for me. There are many reasons for that, the first of which is that show business loves second chances (and thirds and fourths), which is how I’m still able to buy into this craps game at all.'

'Because of the Thames Torso case, O’Reilly has done a lot of study of ritual human sacrifice cases and his knowledge has grown to the point that he is now consulted on the subject by police forces from around the world. Being so engrossed in the subject, both on a theoretical and investigative level, it occurred to me that he has probably incurred the wrath of numerous people involved in the unsavory side of magic.'

I mean, hey, it was free.

My only real criticism about this story so far is that everyone laughs after every. single. line. He laughed. She laughed. They laughed. Everybody laughed. At the end of nearly every line. Throughout the book. I laughed.