Reconstruction Quotes

“he was Civil Service; they could take his life, but they’d never take his annual leave—”
― Mick Herron, Reconstruction

“Blessed are the unforgiving, for they shall come out even. That was the lost frigging beatitude as far as Bad Sam Chapman was concerned. As for the meek: we’ll make them give it back.”
― Mick Herron, Reconstruction

“Which was long before Louise came in, because sometime in the nineties, an architectural shift had matched the social revolution of the eighties, and the dominant style was now the big fuck-off.”
― Mick Herron, Reconstruction

“sooner than now.”
― Mick Herron, Reconstruction

“Sad little numbers man, I’d call him squeaky clean except there’s something rather grubby about the type, don’t you think? Staring at screens all day, then shuffling home to an evening’s porn. I’m surprised he had the imagination for a coup like this.”
― Mick Herron, Reconstruction

“This was a compromise, it was true—and compromises laid end to end were indistinguishable from surrender—but such things happened in enemy territory; you took time to check out the terrain, then drew a line in the sand you could defend.”
― Mick Herron, Reconstruction

“Even as he was speaking, he was having a vision of what Miro’s life must have been like: paranoia raised to an art form. He must have logged every item Jaime ever brought into his flat, and logged each one out again after he’d left. Burned the bedlinen, replaced the crockery; vacuumed the ceilings in Jaime’s wake, so there’d be nothing to remind him he’d ever been there. Which was a kind of self-protection; one that erased happiness as soon as it departed, so its souvenirs didn’t lacerate the present.”
― Mick Herron, Reconstruction

“The waiting policemen were combat-geared just this side of fetishism, and didn’t look like they’d brook disdain, much less resistance.”
― Mick Herron, Reconstruction

“Like speed cameras, we take one picture, then another; and allow the data gathered by experience to fill the gaps between.”
― Mick Herron, Reconstruction