“He’ll get a life sentence for the illegal trafficking alone and probably a death sentence for the people he killed along the way.”

—  Robert Lynn Asprin

He sighed slightly. “I always did fancy happy endings.”
Source: Wagers of Sin (1996), Chapter 21 (p. 430)

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