Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold Quotes

“Instead of the Americans and the French who preceded them, we had the Soviets, plump and unhappy, the color of lard. They were known as Americans Without Dollars.”
― Jeffery Deaver, Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue From the Cold War

“There will always be a Comrade Vo. There have always been governments that tell us what to do and what not to do, to tell us what to believe and how to behave. We are small people who must bend with the slightest breeze. That is the essence of small people. We can no more change these events than we can change the direction of the wind.”
― Jeffery Deaver, Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue From the Cold War

“Observe the Baltimore Irish Catholic in his natural environment, eating soft ice cream and onion rings after a movie.”
― Jeffery Deaver, Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue From the Cold War

“A spy in what her mother called the land of Mackerel Snappers and Shanty Irish.”
― Jeffery Deaver, Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue From the Cold War

“Author O. Henry coins the term “Banana Republic” for countries with one main product like bananas, ruled by a small rich military-elite of landowners at the tip and a vast impoverished populace crushed beneath like an iceberg.”
― Jeffery Deaver, Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue From the Cold War