Assassin's Game Quotes

“We have both risen to great achievements, the pinnacle of our respective disciplines.”
― Ward Larsen, Assassin's Game

“For thirty-five years Sanderson had watched policemen near the end of their careers, and he knew there were two distinct leanings. Most pulled back and coasted onto the off-ramp of retirement. They put checkmarks in boxes and answered phones when it suited them, showed up at the station a few minutes later each morning. When the halfhearted party finally came, with its backslapping and cake and embarrassing gifts, it was no more than a ripple, quickly lost in the ongoing storm of day-to-day operations. But there was a second path. Men and women who went out on less subdued terms, the results either noble or ruinous, but always spectacular.”
― Ward Larsen, Assassin's Game

“bed, the Glock near his right hand, safety off.”
― Ward Larsen, Assassin's Game

“He remembered tracking an Israeli assassin across Sweden to the village of Oxelösund, followed by a harrowing passage in Janna Magnussen’s crate of an airplane. Stepping onto the dock in Sassnitz, Germany, and then … and then nothing. Sanderson couldn’t recall anything more, not even how he’d ended up in this room.”
― Ward Larsen, Assassin's Game

“Thinking they’d found their man, a Mossad team was dispatched to the village of Lillehammer, Norway, to assassinate Salameh, but mistakenly murdered an innocent Moroccan waiter as he walked home from a theater with his pregnant wife.”
― Ward Larsen, Assassin's Game

“plumbing as toilets were”
― Ward Larsen, Assassin's Game