" A spy’s work is never done.” “But these days all the smart boys do their compulsory service in the IDF and then run like hell. They want to make money and talk on their cell phones from the cafés of Ben Yehuda Street. We used to get only the best. Like you, Gabriel. Now we get the ones who are too stupid or lazy to make it in the real world.” “Change your recruiting tactics. "

― Daniel Silva , The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)