“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. —HONORÉ DE BALZAC” — Daniel Silva Balzac Copy Share Image
“Only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can truly be a great restorer.” — Daniel Silva Artist Copy Share Image
“I suppose it’s true what they say. The spouse is always the last to know.” — Daniel Silva Marriage Copy Share Image
The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation. — Daniel Silva Chance Copy Share Image
“life is just as long as the time it takes to pass by a window.” — Daniel Silva Life Copy Share Image
“But that’s the beauty of American cable news, darling. It doesn’t have to be credible. It just has to be entertaining.” — Daniel Silva Beauty Copy Share Image
“You know where everything is. You practically live here now.” Shamron muttered something in Polish about the ingratitude” — Daniel Silva Gratitude Copy Share Image
“It was a technique as old as the bazaar, the willingness to walk away from a deal.” — Daniel Silva Negotiation Copy Share Image
“I can be whoever you want me to be: CIA, FBI, DIA, an agency so fucking secret you've never heard of it… — Daniel Silva Secret Copy Share Image
“Wasting the valuable time of others, thought Rousseau, was a bureaucrat’s ultimate revenge.” — Daniel Silva Revenge Copy Share Image
“The nexus between crime and radical Islam is one of the most disturbing emerging trends confronting U.S. and Western European counterterrorism officials.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“more evil has been carried out in the name of religion than any other force in human history.” — Daniel Silva Evil Copy Share Image
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy. — Daniel Silva Books Copy Share Image
“After more than five years, some agents might be tempted to become complacent. Catherine would never become complacent. It was one of… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real… — Daniel Silva Allies Copy Share Image
“When you're dealing with Switzerland, Mr. Allon, it's best to keep one thing in mind. Switzerland is not a real country. It's… — Daniel Silva Business Copy Share Image
“Wasn’t it Moses who dispatched a team of agents to spy out the land of Canaan?” “History’s first intelligence failure,” said Gabriel.… — Daniel Silva Israel Copy Share Image
“To be honest with you, I’ve always felt a little Jewish.” “You have an aversion to shellfish and German opera?” “I was… — Daniel Silva Jewish Copy Share Image
“To understand Russia today, you must understand the trauma of the nineties. Everything we had, everything we had been told, was swept… — Daniel Silva Basket Case Copy Share Image
“The CIA program known as “extraordinary rendition,” the practice of clandestinely transferring suspected terrorists from one country to another for the purposes… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“If there was indeed a recording of the conversation that followed, it did not exist for long. Carter would never speak of… — Daniel Silva Assassin Copy Share Image
“Retirement had robbed Arbatov of his edge. Like most old men who live alone, he had settled into a carefully scripted daily… — Daniel Silva Habits Copy Share Image
“IN THE fifteenth century, a swampy parcel of land in the sestieri of Cannaregio was set aside for the construction of a… — Daniel Silva Etymology Copy Share Image
“A gust of cool wind moved in the curtains and made shadows dance and play for her on the walls of the… — Daniel Silva Affairs Copy Share Image
“But I’ve come to realize that this continent is dying a slow death. Europe is receding quietly into history. It’s old and… — Daniel Silva Death Copy Share Image
“had not slept. Her gaze was somewhere else. Three half-smoked cigarettes lay in the ashtray on her nightstand. A pile of briefs… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“IT SEEMS DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE, but there was once a time when human beings did not feel the need to share their… — Daniel Silva Immortality Copy Share Image
The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next. — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
