Jeremy Beaumont-Jones had been lucky enough to be born rich. He wasn’t in the mad oligarch class but once you’re past a certain point, the sheer weight of your money sucks in wealth like a financial s...
It’s a truism in policing that witnesses and statements are fine, but nothing beats empirical physical evidence. Actually it isn’t a truism because most policemen think the word ‘empirical’ is somethi...
If you ask any police officer what the worst part of the job is, they will always say breaking bad news to relatives, but this is not the truth. The worst part is staying in the room after you've brok...
I think you’re going to find Marcus Aurelius particularly useful.’ ‘For what?’ I asked. Nightingale hesitated. ‘Quoting, mainly,’ he said. ‘And thus maintaining an air of erudition and authority.
Hyde Park Corner is what happens when a bunch of urban planners take one look at the grinding circle of gridlock that surrounds the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and think—that’s what we want for our town.
He asked if we were really ghost hunting, and I said we were. What, like officially? Officially secret, I said because discretion is supposed to be, if not our middle name, at least a nickname we occa...
Desde que la humanidad dejó de vagar sin rumbo y empezó a cultivar su propia comida, la sociedad se ha vuelto más complicada. En cuanto dejamos de acostarnos con nuestras primas y construimos paredes,...
Class-war evil supernatural black fungus. I love it.
Cicero wouldn’t approve of my writing style, but at least I pronounce his name with a hard C.
A civilizáció és bürokrácia egy másik kulcsfontosságú jellemzője a tehetetlenség.
„În cameră era de asemenea și Zeița Râului Tamisa. Stătea tronând pe unul dintre cele mai bune scaune executive de birou. Părul îi era împletit, cu șuvițe de bumbac alb și tapat cu aur, încât îi venea...
„Să păstrez pacea Reginei. Să aduc ordine în haos.
[...] I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, Who knows why the fuck anything happens?
You do magic by learning formae which are like shapes in your mind that have an effect on the physical universe.
Will you be all right driving in this snow? She found that hilarious. This is not snow, she said. Where I’m from, you know, you have snow when you can’t find your car the next morning.
What's it a charm for?' she asked.The man thought about this for a moment.'It's your basic all-enveloping protection charm,' he said, his hands describing a cupped circle in the air. 'For protection a...
We were aiming for a cross between Kafka and Orwell, which just goes to show how dangerous it can be when your police officers are better read than you are.
There are people who have been touched by, let’s call it for the sake of argument, magic to the point where they’re no longer entirely people even under human rights legislation. Nightingale calls the...
The world was different before the war,' he said. 'We didn't have this instantaneous access to information that your generation has. The world was a bigger, more mysterious place - we still dreamed of...
The evening was still warm enough for shirtsleeves, and the city was clinging to summer like a wannabe trophy wife to a promising center forward.