The Bourne Sanction Quotes

“They did.” The guard grabbed Maks’s elbow. “This way,” he indicated with the glistening end of the truncheon. Maks’s eyes narrowed. “That’s not the way back to the cells.” “Do you want to get out of here or not?” the guard said. Maks nodded his conditional assent, and the two men loped across the deserted yard. The guard kept his body pressed against the wall, and Maks followed suit. They moved at a deliberate pace, he saw, that kept them out of the beams of the roving spotlights. He would have wondered who this guard was, but there was no time. Besides, in the back of his mind he’d been expecting something like this. He knew his boss, the head of the Kazanskaya, wasn’t going to let him rot in Colony 13 for the rest of his life, if only because he was too valuable an asset to let rot. Who could possibly replace the great Borya Maks? Only one, perhaps: Leonid Arkadin. But Arkadin—whoever he was; no one Maks knew had ever met him or seen his face—wouldn’t work for Kazanskaya, or any of the families; he was a freelancer, the last of a dying breed. If he existed at all, which, frankly, Maks doubted. He’d grown up with stories of bogeymen with all”
― Eric Van Lustbader, The Bourne Sanction

“So much can be learned from language because it’s been shaped by history.”
― Eric Van Lustbader, The Bourne Sanction

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― Eric Van Lustbader, The Bourne Sanction