The Hunted Quotes

“Thirty years of practicing law on both sides of the bench had converted him from a mild liberal to a fairly rabid one. And like every liberal judge in the country—in his opinion, like any judge with half a brain—”
― Brian Haig, The Hunted

“In a vast nation with more than forty languages and dialects, and nearly as many different ethnic groups, there was only one unifying factor, one common thread—nearly every citizen in the Soviet Union had been scorched by their bureau in one way or another. Not directly, perhaps. But somebody dear, or at least close: grandfathers purged by Stalin; fathers who had disappeared and rotted in the camps under Brezhnev; aunts and uncles brought in for a little rough questioning under Andropov. Something. Nearly every family tree had at least one branch crippled or lopped off by the boys from the Lubyanka.”
― Brian Haig, The Hunted

“After seventy years of struggle and turmoil, it all came down to this; the fate of the world’s last great empire hinged on a titanic struggle between two men—one ordained to go down as the most pathetically naïve general secretary ever; the other an obnoxious, loudmouthed lush.”
― Brian Haig, The Hunted