“All that’s truly documented from time immemorial is that man continues to kill without needing the meat of his quarry; he lies in order to avoid accountability or, conversely, to seize the reins of accountability to the point where the social contact between the government and the governed is his alone to write; he seeks endlessly to enrich himself  at the expense of the public will, and while he’s at it tries all too frequently to turn his personal morality or religion into everyone else’s legality or religiosity, no quarter to the unbelievers of pariahdom.”

– Robert Ludlum in the introduction of Trevayne