Hard-boiled Quote by Walter Kaylin

“If word got out that anyone was moving soldiers, they could expect a tuman to turn up on the horizon. Genghis was not a…

— Conn Iggulden

“His ears were attuned for the steady firing of Couzens' heavy machine guns, which he knew should now commence, and the thud of his…

— Pat Frank

“If the Mongols had a motto, it might have been “Have weapon, will travel.”

— Steve Wiegand

“In a way, a man's life depended on the china horse. Or at least on the breaking of the china horse.”

— Vivien Alcock

“Marco Polo, who wrote that Mongol couriers could cover 250 or even 300 miles in a single day. Reading historical tales about such exploits,…

— Tim Cope

“China, you run in there and bust out some crazy Shaolin kung-fu, then I'll easily capture them when they're all tired and beat up.…

— Hidekaz Himaruya

“OK, so this is the story of a Chinese father and son and their best horse. The horse runs away, for no reason, and…

— Scarlett Thomas

“All around them were the bodies of dead Chinese soldiers. They lined the verges of the roads and floated in the canals, jammed together…

— J.G. Ballard

“There were guns. And tigers. And horses, Ma, the horses were horrible. And basically, people wanted to kill us. Well, not us specifically, but—”

— Abigail Roux - Stars Stripes

“Rooster said, "Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!" and he took the reins in his teeth and pulled the other saddle revolver…

— Charles Portis

“I listened to the static echoing in my ear and thought of those herds of horses you get in the vast wild spaces of…

— Tana French

“Chen pointed to the cub. "There's your brute." Then he pointed to the pups. "And there's your domestication. For the most part, Westerners are…

— Jiang Rong