" Colonel Sudwerth’s driver—the one who left me on my own—has been charged with murder by the Russians. The good colonel thinks I had something to do with it. He doesn’t seem to understand that he and the driver caused the problems, not me.” “Toujours, that is the way of those like him. They would blame everyone but themselves. "

― L.E. Modesitt Jr. , Ghost of the White Nights (Ghost, #3)