What that judge did is immoral. Here in Panama when we bribe somebody we expect loyalty.
The pallor of his eyes caught you by surprise. You expected more challenge from him, heavier shadows. And
The most effective deceit is the one which is never discovered.
If a decade of diplomatic life had taught Toby one thing, it was to treat every crisis as normal and soluble.
However closely we live together, at whatever time of day or night we sound the deepest thoughts in one another, we know nothing.
He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included.
He has a saying: he'll only believe what can be written on a postcard.
Don't give it to them all at once, make them work for it. Confuse them with detail, leave things out, go back on your tracks. Be testy, be cussed, be difficult. Drink like a fish; don't give way on th...
In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than...
I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.
Must be
Age.
Why am I despising you when I'm about to change your life?
When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.
The vertical man
It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?
It took Jonathan a moment to realize that Jeds was the woman. Not Jed, a single man, but Jeds a single woman in all her varieties.
Give these people a try, Smiley, they might have you and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.
But despite such energetic mental exercise, the ghosts of time present would intrude and drive his dreams away. It was Ann who had robbed him of his peace, Ann who had once made the present so importa...