The Fixer Quotes

“were five calls to that same number. Six the day before that. None for the two weeks previous. So why all the calls to and from Alex Pappas on those three days between May 25 and May 27? Something must have happened that required Lenny’s services. Pappas had wanted something from Lenny. So what had happened on those three days? He couldn’t ask his father. He needed some other way. The simplest solution was to look through a newspaper from those days”
― Joseph Finder, The Fixer

“shorthand”
― Joseph Finder, The Fixer

“Remember the old guy with the bell?”
― Joseph Finder, The Fixer

“You ever watch Breaking Bad?”
― Joseph Finder, The Fixer

“Did a few poor souls die because of the Big Dig? Son, a hundred men died building the Hoover Dam. A thousand men died building the Erie Canal. Four hundred Chinamen died building the transcontinental railroad. How about the Panama Canal? One of the greatest engineering feats in history? Thirty thousand men died building it. Ambitious projects always cost lives, son. That’s the truth. Have you ever visited the great pyramids of Giza?”
― Joseph Finder, The Fixer

“The FBI is always finicky in its dealings with journalists. It views them as unreliable, uncontrollable, publicity-seeking loose cannons, which is largely true. Journalists view the FBI as hidebound, bureaucratic, and legalistic, which is also largely true.”
― Joseph Finder, The Fixer