" It’s been 10 Years since 9/11. Ten years, Gabriel repeated, and Saudi Arabia is still a cash machine for terrorists and Sunni extremist groups. There’s only one possible explanation. The deal with the devil has been renewed. The House of Saud side is willing to turn a blind eye to Islamic terror as long as the secret rage is directed outward, away from the oil fields. "

― Daniel Silva , Portrait of a Spy (Gabriel Allon, #11)