Per Fine Ounce Quotes

“Against the velvet of the night sky, the boom operator seated in the tail of the U.S Air Force Lockheed Tristar K. Mk.1 tanker could not to see the Blackbird as it slowly approached. The recon aircraft’s matt fuselage and wings merged with the dark sky, the still secret matt black titanium, and carbon-fibre skin of the hypersonic SR71 designed to absorb most light and all radar waves. However, the hypersonic spy plane’s proximity radarscope clearly revealed the tanker.”
― Peter Vollmer, Per Fine Ounce

“Bloody Americans,” Peace thought. Why did everything have to be reduced to an acronym? WMD’s, God, just call it a bloody atom bomb!”
― Peter Vollmer, Per Fine Ounce

“With its apartheid policy, South Africa was a pariah nation, and western countries faced the choice of which was the least evil – a nuclear armed pro-western South Africa, or a country overrun by Black and Cuban forces that subscribed to Communist ideology: Neither idea was pleasant.”
― Peter Vollmer, Per Fine Ounce

“Ian Fleming’s stories probably had a greater influence on me than those of Geoffrey Jenkins, although I’ve always considered Jenkins to be a unique storyteller. When writing “Per Fine Ounce”, I was trying to retain the suspense and emulate the cavalier nature of Fleming’s James Bond.”
― Peter Vollmer, Per Fine Ounce

“I had access to excerpts to the original version of Per Fine Ounce which were provided to us by David Jenkins, the son of Geoffrey Jenkins, with his consent to write another South Africa thriller using Commander Geoffrey Peace as the main character, and using the same title Per Fine Ounce. David kindly gave us permission to include previously unpublished extracts from the original Bond novel as a front piece for my novel.”
― Peter Vollmer, Per Fine Ounce