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Quotes from When Eight Bells Toll — Alistair MacLean

1922–1987 Scotland

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I should have listened to Hunslett. Again I should have listened to Hunslett. And again for Hunslett's sake. But I didn't know then that Hunslett was to have time for all the sleep in the world.

When Eight Bells Toll (1966)

The Peacemaker Colt has now been in production, without change in design, for a century. ... It is the oldest hand-gun in the world, without question the most famous and, if efficiency in its designated task of maiming and killing be taken as criterion of its worth, then it is also probably the best hand-gun ever made.

When Eight Bells Toll (1966)

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