“Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of telltale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers.”

— Lee Child , book Gone Tomorrow

Source: Gone Tomorrow (2009), Ch. 1.

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British thriller writer 1954

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