“Alan Blunt got in touch with me and asked me to put you up here for the rest of the week, to pretend that you're my son. I have to say, you don't look anything like me."

"I don't look anything like myself either," Alex said.”

—  Anthony Horowitz, book Point Blanc

Source: Point Blank

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