VICTIM 2117
Jussi Adler-Olsen
"'NO, YOU CAN’T have your travel expenses covered as a freelancer if it isn’t agreed beforehand. How often do we need to tell you, Joan?'"
"'NO, YOU CAN’T have your travel expenses covered as a freelancer if it isn’t agreed beforehand. How often do we need to tell you, Joan?'"
"Balloons. Countless balloons."
"Cotton fled the smoky chapel through the side door and entered a small anteroom."
"'Let’s roll,' he said when he saw me, and that was it for conversation, which was fine by me."
"At the bottom of a deep pit, Maggie listened through the earpiece as she pressed a probe against the side of an unexploded bomb."
"It’s amazing what you can do in an hour when your life depends on it."
"The storm only gathered strength during the short trip to Paddington. Lenox felt keenly for poor William Elliott, the raw-faced young groom, just seventeen, who sat atop the box of the carriage with the reins and whip in hand."
"I don’t have any great ambitions for myself. It’s enough for me if the three of us can lead safe, healthy lives."
"Nga-Yee stood outside a six-story tenement building on Second Street in Sai Ying Pun, staring at the house number in confusion."
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