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Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone ste...more

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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevit...more

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Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands.

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Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

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I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. ...more

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I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little."He meant a liar.

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Curiosity is a descending stair…that leads to only who-knows-where.

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Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try...more

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Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medalsand the public has ...more

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Funding for the Special Operations Network comes directly from the government. Most work is centralized, but all of the SpecOps divisions have local r...more

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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.