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“Drown a man like Dickie Bow in booze, you’re merely speeding things up.”
“And who were ‘they,’ in this scenario? The East Germans?”
“Oh, nothing so parochial. No, Dickie Bow’s story was, he’d been snatched by actual hoods. The Moscow variety. And not your everyday foot soldier, either.”
— Dead Lions (Mick Herron), Loc. 1053–6