Doctor How and the Dragons Quotes

“To Kevin’s surprise, Cassandra was able to make the right gesture to cue a display of data about the squirrels in question. “Just as I thought,” she said. “Non-native. The Eleventh Duke of Bedfordshire was responsible for introducing them from America in 1890. Since then they’ve all but wiped out the native red squirrel in England and Wales. Do you know, I never did think much of the Bedfordshires,” she said. “I knew the Sixth Duke. A ne’er-do-well, in my view. He was a Bonapartist, and he was opposed to the Peninsular War.”
― Mark Speed, Doctor How and the Dragons: Book 4

“The other two teams of two men were charged with sleeping. Being stress-tested special forces, they did this so much more effectively than any civilian could even have dreamt of.”
― Mark Speed, Doctor How and the Dragons: Book 4

“Hughes wondered if Norton had deliberately withheld the information from him. “And being a man of the cloth is how you’d know your griffins from your dragons?” “No, my doctorate is in history. And I’m just a deacon. A lay preacher. I suppose I’m just over-educated.” He gave Hughes a thin smile. “I happen to know my griffins from my dragons, that’s all.”
― Mark Speed, Doctor How and the Dragons: Book 4