“there wasn’t much to say about Klaus Hering except that he was about thirty years old, slimly built, fair-haired and, thanks in part to his necktie, getting on for tall.” — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
“No wonder Van Gogh cut his ear off, I thought; there’s nothing else to do in a place like this but cut your ear… — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
“Uki Goni’s excellent book The Real Odessa for much of my information about Nazis in Argentina.” — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
“Frau Lange, her chins and her dog were waiting for me on the same chaise longue, except that it had been recovered with a… — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
“The colonel stood up. “I hope you enjoy your trip to Uruguay. Its government is stable, democratic, and politically mature. There’s even a welfare… — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
“My only choice was between the disastrous and the unpalatable. A very German choice.” — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
“Looking round the room I found there were so many false eyelashes flapping at me that I was beginning to feel a draught.” — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
“as great a blight on our world as a missionary landing on Tahiti with a boxful of brassieres.” — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
“When you’re working for people who are mostly thieves and murderers, a little of it comes off on your hands now and then.” — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
“Well, who knew? When they were elected. That they were crooks, I mean.” “Pretty much everyone who didn’t vote for them, Friedrich. And I… — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
“the man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his… — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
“leaders.’ Nebe snorted and went back round his desk. ‘You’re going to have to watch your mouth, Bernie,’ he said, half-amused. ‘Get to the… — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
“If he was a member of the human race at all, Neumann was its least attractive specimen. His eyebrows, twitching and curling like two… — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
