Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes
"I was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while." It was my turn to be quiet. "Did you take it?" "Would I be calling you if I had?" "Maybe," I said. He laughed. "True, but I'm not going to take it." "Why not?" "Friendship." "Try again," I said. "I figure I'll get to kill more people guarding you. If I take the contract, I only get to kill you." "Comforting."
Hamilton, Laurell K. Circus of the Damned. Ace Books, 1995.
During the Cold War, Yugoslavia was a part of the Eastern Communist Bloc, but was very independent. They had a very experienced military and were the one country of the Eastern Bloc who the Russians could not easily militarily dominate. Tito was a great and feared military leader having killed More Germans per soldier with his army than any of the Allies in WWII. He was also very independent of Moscow and would not follow Russia directives. The Russians decided on assassinating Tito but the attempts failed.
The motivations and willingness to die of the suicide bomber is not unique to Islamic terrorists. On occasion our CIA has used the technique. Official CIA instructions on “lost assassination” were distributed within the agency and sometimes to our “allies” who we were training.
See Robert F. Kennedy for a later expression of this sentiment. 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
See Banjamin Disraeli for an earlier expression of this idea.
Pinkerton worked out a plan to spirit Lincoln through Baltimore where he had to change trains.
Laurell Kaye Hamilton is an American fantasy and romance writer. She is best known as the author of two series of stories.
