"The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet." —Colonel Haki, Chapter 2, p. 23.

"By the time that dawn broke on the fifteenth of September, over one hundred and twenty thousand persons had perished; but somewhere amidst that horror had been Dimitrios, alive." —Chapter 3, p. 38.

"One cannot fight against one's Destiny. If the Great One wills that we shall do unpleasant things, depend upon it that He has a purpose even though that purpose is not always clear to us." —Mr. Peters, Chapter 4, p. 70.

"His face was smooth and oval and pale and he had very brown, anxious eyes that made you think of a doctor's eyes when he is doing something to you that hurts. He frightened me." —Irana Preveza describing Dimitrios, Chapter 6, p. 107.

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