The Spy and the Thief Quotes

“It was like marble or quartz, but cut through to show the layers of black and white, with sometimes just a hint of red or brown. “What’s this edge made of?” “Onyx. My first big play on Broadway was The Onyx Ring. The pool is one of my few luxuries.”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Spy and the Thief

“Strictly as a thief, Nick Velvet is today’s heir apparent to the crown worn by such Napoleons of knavery as Grant Allen’s illustrious Colonel Clay (1897), E. W. Homung’s cricketer-cracksman A. J. Raffles (1899), O. Henry’s gentle Jeff Peters (1908), George Randolph Chester’s get-rich-quick Wallingford (1908), Frederick Irving Anderson’s infallible Godahl (1914) and notorious Sophie Lang (1925), Edgar Wallace’s forthright Four Square Jane (1929), Leslie Charteris’ saintly Simon Templar (1933), and Roy Vickers’ ethereal Fidelity Dove (1935).”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Spy and the Thief

“They talked for a time longer and Sine took him on a brief tour of the plant, past assembly lines where dungareed girls operating wire-wrap machines worked on computer circuits, the company’s major product.”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Spy and the Thief

“I always thought it was a myth about electric eels having enough of a charge to kill someone.” “It’s no myth. I’ve studied up on it for this assignment. The electrophorus electricus grows to a length of eight or ten feet, and weighs perhaps as much as ninety pounds.”
― Edward D. Hoch, The Spy and the Thief