“Anything that can go wrong with armed men in the light can go twice as wrong in the dark.”

—  Ben Aaronovitch , book Moon Over Soho

Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 12, “It Don’t Mean a Thing” (p. 265)

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