Dragonfire Quotes

“complete works of Shakespeare bound in red leather and many other grand titles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Dame Agatha Christie’s memorable detectives.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“levels, meandering around and down the hillside to where the jungle encroached. The postmodern structure looked to have been built on a clearing at the very top of the hill. It was totally surrounded by dense jungle and warnings like PRIVATE. NO TRESPASSING! And orders to KEEP OUT! GUARD DOGS! His curiousity piqued, Hawke said, “Let’s go take a look at this damn thing, Stoke. It’s two and a half miles away, at the southern tip of the island. The beach runs along directly below it. It’s jungle all the way, but we’ve got your machete.” “You gonna carry, boss? Just in case,” Stoke said. “Yeah. I’ll stick the Walther in the waistband of my swimsuit. You?” “Around this place? Always. Listen, before I forget, I saw something on my way down here from Miami I meant to tell you about soon as I got off the G-plane.” “Now’s as good a time as any, man.” “Well, it was at the end of the flight. We were coming out of five thousand feet, descending and on final approach. I happened to be looking out the window, expecting to see blue water. But what I saw was green. It was a giant mangrove swamp, stretching out as far as I could see. And suddenly we’re over water again. Right in the center of the swamp was a large bay, totally surrounded”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“It’s Eau d’Orange Verte,” she said. “Hermès.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“It was a Walther PPK, his favorite. Light and small but lethal.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Help me lift off this cover.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“They hid it obviously.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Mosquitoes”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Nazi headquarters”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“He could stomach”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Torpex. Torpex is a secondary explosive fifty percent more powerful than TNT by mass.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“torn limb from limb by vicious man-eating guard dogs.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“saboatage”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“9X19mm.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Skipper, I have radar contact.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Hawke’s Double Red Sea-Dweller had been made for COMEX”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“et cetera, et cetera, as the King of Siam would have put it.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“out of the aircraft before it sinks like a bloody stone?”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Kugleschriber?”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“sie?” Hawke said, “Alles gut. Bitte, haben-sie”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“M16”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“the three-rotor encoding machine that all the Kriegsmarine (War Navy) ships and subs at sea use in lieu of the Enigma.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Well. Here’s the thing. The beautiful minds out at Bletchley Park cracked the code on that one.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“while I was still at Oxford.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“A man who was not who he appeared to be needed to be ever mindful of who he really was.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Your Royal Majesty.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“The Queen had awakened him shortly after dawn, a call from Buck House. Her Majesty the Queen was fit to be tied.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Walther PPK”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“Be sure that you do.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“I do hope I’m not interrupting what appears to be an inconvenient moment. . . .”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire

“trusty old American .45—five cartridges in and the hammer down on the empty. The bulky blue steel revolver felt heavy and cold in his hand as he quickly snapped out the cylinder and checked the load. The slugs were scooped out and a deep cross had been cut into the head of each.”
― Ted Bell, Dragonfire