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Quotes from Fear Is the Key — Alistair MacLean

1922–1987 Scotland

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Women, I thought: if they fell over a cliff and thought there was company waiting at the bottom, they'd comb their hair on the way down.

Fear Is the Key (1961)

Big crime is big business, and big criminals are big businessmen, running their illegal activities with all the meticulous care and administrative precision of their more law-abiding colleagues.

Fear Is the Key (1961)

She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.

Fear Is the Key (1961)

The first thing I noticed was the gun in his hands, and it wasn't the sort of gun a beginner carries around with him. A big dull black German Mauser 7.63. One of those economical guns; the bullet goes clear through three people at once.

Fear Is the Key (1961)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alistair MacLean (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.