48, NG21, M43, E47, / WG27, F5, MF0, D1, Frz0, NA0, B4, C1

Lawrence Block, Tanner's Tiger (Evan Tanner Book 5)

Wie Tanner es in dieser Geschichte schafft, in Kanada ein Attentat auf die Queen zu verhindern, ohne das irgendjemand etwas davon mitbekommt - am wenigsten die Attentäter selber - obwohl er eigentlich nur die Expo besuchen wollte, ist wieder höchst unterhaltsam und spannend zu lesen.

At that age hardly anyone really worries about death. I certainly hadn't. I had known that the possibility of my dying existed, and when I was in actual front-line combat and watched men catch bullets on either side of me, I was certainly scared, but I don't think I ever honestly conceived of the idea of my own personal death. It was something that happened to other people; I was eighteen years old and I was going to live forever, or to be fifty, anyway, which at that age amounts to the same thing.
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I sleep not at all, having lost the habit forever when a shard of North Korean shrapnel performed random brain surgery and knocked out something called the sleep center. I have been awake ever since. My disability pay is $ 112 per month, and I don't have to spend a cent of it on pajamas.
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(Lawrence Block, Tanner's Tiger, 1967)