After more than five years, some agents might be tempted to become complacent. Catherine would never become complacent. It was one of the reasons she survived when others had been arrested and hanged.

— Daniel Silva

For every terrorist we kill, there’s another boy waiting to step forward and pick up the stone or the gun. They’re like shark’s teeth: break one and another will rise in its place.

— Daniel Silva

He felt as though the bones of his rib cage were snapping beneath the weight of the stone that God had laid over his heart.

— Daniel Silva

Jews don't camp... The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.

— Daniel Silva

Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Führer. But the real strike will come here. At Calais.

— Daniel Silva

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

— Daniel Silva

The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.

— Daniel Silva

Vicar had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.

— Daniel Silva

We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers.

— Daniel Silva

Why, we're simply going to create an army of a million men. Conjure it up, I'm afraid, completely out of thin air.

— Daniel Silva