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Night of the Assassin (Assassin, #0.5) QUOTES

Night of the Assassin (Assassin, #0.5) QUOTES

1 " Experience: Mistakes you have survived. "

― Russell Blake , Night of the Assassin (Assassin, #0.5)

2 " of Swords to bed, I couldn’t shake the sense of unfinished business. I’d go to sleep and have vivid dreams, and they were always the same – about the characters in my book. Specifically, they were about the assassin’s past. It was like a disease. I couldn’t stop thinking about him. That’s unfamiliar to me, for the most part. I had the same general sense when I got done with Al, from The Geronimo Breach, but I had no compulsion to write another book about him, fascinating as his character is. I felt closure at the end of that work. "

― Russell Blake , Night of the Assassin (Assassin, #0.5)

3 " commanding the entire length, so there was no cover or alternative to doing the dive. This was the only way to get close. A commotion from the sea bed startled him with a cloud of muddy sediment. A large stingray rose from the muck and glided by him, nudging his neoprene-encased legs with one of its wings. More sensing the creature than seeing it, he was momentarily caught off guard. His respiration increased as he flailed in alarm, causing a rush of bubbles to rise to the surface. Battling for control over his breathing, he struggled to slow his heart rate – after a few seconds of inward composure, he had it back to beating at a moderate pace. He didn’t pause long to dwell on the near-miss, beyond musing that it would be ironic if his "

― Russell Blake , Night of the Assassin (Assassin, #0.5)