89 Quotes by Mick Herron

​This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses.

A fuse had blown in Swindon, so the south-west network ground to a halt.

She’d read a lot of discussions about 9/11, obviously, but contributions from structural engineers had been conspicuous by their absence.

You either cleaned up other people's messes or you didn't--and that was the class system for you, right there.

Lamb stood, gazed at the nearest tree as if in sudden awe of nature, lifted a heel from the ground and farted."Sign of a good curry," he said, "Sometimes they just bubble about inside you for ages.""I keep meaning to ask why you have never married," River said.

When he’d joined the Service he’d been in Psych Eval, which had involved evaluating operational strategies for psychological impact – on targets as well as agents – but had also meant carrying out individual assessments; who was stressed, who’d benefit from a change of routine, and who was a psychopath. Every organisation had a few, usually at management level, and it was handy to know who they were in case there was an emergency, or an office party. Pg 243

How's your career looking?''Well, I don't have an arse two inches in front of my nose, so my view beats yours.

Catherine closed her eyes and saw it again: [Charles] Partner’s body in the bathtub; the contents of his head a red mess on the porcelain. A pulpy mixture, like trodden grapes. Some memories seared themselves on your mind, like a shadow on a wall after a nuclear flash.

One of the unforeseen consequences of Brexit, reflected Whelan, was that it had elevated to positions of undue prominence any number of nasty little toerags. Ah well. The people had spoken.