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“Kelso's hangover had gone, to be replaced by that familiar phase of post-alcoholic euphoria - always in the past, his most productive time of day - a feeling that alone was enough to make getting drunk worthwhile.”

Quote by Robert Harris

Work

Archangel is a speculative fiction novel that explores themes of faith, power, and the struggle for survival in a world reshaped by divine intervention. The story follows the journey of a protagonist who encounters an archangel, leading to a series of events that challenge the very fabric of society. more

Author

Robert Harris is a renowned British novelist, born on March 7, 1957. He is known for his historical novels and thrillers, which have gained popularity among readers. more

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“From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the objective perspective.”

Archangel Robert Harris

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“You are a bird of ill-omen, thought Kelso. You circle the world and wherever you land there is famine and death and destruction: in an earlier and less credulous age, the local citizens would have gathered at the first sight of you and driven you off with stones -”

Archangel Robert Harris

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“In the concealed darkness of the bag her fingers began to work her rosary, clumsily at first but with increasing dexterity - Push. Click. Slide. Press -”

Archangel Robert Harris

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“What she needed was someone who would take her for the whole night. Someone decent and respectable, with an apartment of his own. But how could you ever judge what men were really like? It was the young ones with the swaggering walks and the loud mouths who ended up bursting into tears and showing you pictures of their girlfriends. It was the bespectacled bankers and lawyers who liked to knock you around.”

Archangel Robert Harris

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“... he tried to visualise her apartment, but he couldn't do it, he didn't know enough about her.”

Archangel Robert Harris

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“History wasn't made without taking risks, that much he knew. So maybe sometimes you had to take risks to write it, too?”

Archangel Robert Harris

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“She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went. One day death would come for her, and she would not find that surprising either, and she would not care -”

Archangel Robert Harris

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“the likeness was stricking. Not exact, of course - no man ever looks exactly like his father - but there was something there, no doubt about it, even with the younger man's beard and straggling hair. Something in the cast of the eyes and the bone structure, perhaps, or in the play of the expression: a kind of ponderous agility, a genetic shadow that was beyond the skills of any actor.”

Archangel Robert Harris

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“These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale -”

Archangel Robert Harris

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“A comrade who deserts a comrade is a cowardly dog, and all such dogs should die a dog's death, comrade -”

Archangel Robert Harris

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