Toxic Prey Quotes

“Letty dozed in the webbing of her recliner, a copy of The Quarterly Journal of Economics covering her face. Beneath that, pressing against her nose, was a paperback version of J. D. Robb’s Celebrity in Death, which Letty estimated was the fortieth of the In Death novels she’d read. While not as prestigious as the Journal, the Robb novel was distinctly more intelligent and certainly better written; but, a girl has to maintain her intellectual status with the D.C. deep state, so the Journal went on top.”
― John Sandford, Toxic Prey

“That’s why we’re called the Secret Service. Nobody tells anyone anything.”
― John Sandford, Toxic Prey

“If that ain’t a fact, God’s a possum,”
― John Sandford, Toxic Prey

“and other scientists doing what was called “gain of function” research on viruses—a euphemism for “making more deadly”—a number of high-ranking functionaries further up the bureaucratic ladder than Letty had also said, “Uh-oh.”
― John Sandford, Toxic Prey

“you could sometimes talk to crazy, but there was no dealing with stupid.”
― John Sandford, Toxic Prey

“Martha Grimes’s thriller Send Bygraves,”
― John Sandford, Toxic Prey

“Look at this,” he told Cartwright, tapping the back of a book. “John D. MacDonald, Bright Orange for the Shroud. Great stuff.”
― John Sandford, Toxic Prey

“As the saying went, you could sometimes talk to crazy, but there was no dealing with stupid.”
― John Sandford, Toxic Prey

“China was worse, the biggest burner of the stuff, followed”
― John Sandford, Toxic Prey