“How do you get away with it? Above all, how do you persuade people to risk their lives in order to kill total strangers whom they know almost literally nothing about? Why, the answer’s simple. You lie to them!”

Source: The Stone That Never Came Down (1973), Chapter 17 (p. 135)

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British author 1934–1995

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