I Was Fired From My Television Job,

Sometimes If You Want To Know For Sure Whether The Stove Is Hot, The Only Way To Find Out Is To Touch It.

Evaluate. Long Experience Had Taught Me To Evaluate And Assess. When The Unexpected Gets Dumped On You, Don’t Waste Time. Don’t Figure Out How Or Why It Happened. Don’t Recriminate. Don’t Figure Out Whose Fault It Is. Don’t Work Out How To Avoid The Same Mistake Next Time. All Of That You Do Later. If You Survive.

The Most Sustained Feat Of Imagination In Mystery Fiction Today.

Intensely Vivid Characters, Terrible Crimes, And A Brutal Deep-frozen Landscape All Prove Beyond A Reasonable Doubt That Cold Nurtures Good And Evil As Readily As Heat ... And That Giles Blunt Is A Really Tremendous Crime Novelist.

This Was Like July 13th, 1943, The Pivotal Day Of The Battle Of The Kursk. We Were Like Alexander Vasilevsky, The Soviet General. If We Attacked Now, This Minute, We Had To Keep On And On Attacking Until The Enemy Was Run Off His Feet And The War Was Won. If We Bogged Down Or Paused For Breath Even For A Second, We Would Be Overrun Again.