Spandau Phoenix Quotes

“The colonel had a single vice—whiskey—and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation.”
― Greg Iles, Spandau Phoenix

“darkness turned to noon. Even with the nose cone of the Learjet pointed away from the blast, the flash blinded everyone inside. Diaz lost control of the aircraft. It pitched over into a screaming, spinning dive, hurtling earthward at over five hundred miles per hour. In the cabin, people slammed into each other in the terror of flashblindness. General Steyn screamed in pain. Hauer half-fell past Burton into the cockpit. “Straighten up!” he screamed.”
― Greg Iles, Spandau Phoenix

“treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism—the most destructive forces available to man.”
― Greg Iles, Spandau Phoenix