The Deaths of Tao

Jill blanched. Shooting a RPG was not part of her training.

It is easy. Point and pull the trigger, like operating a vacuum cleaner.

“I don’t know what sorts of house cleaning you’re used to, but the ones I have—”

Symmetry, of course, was the scientific formula of beauty.

Do not separate authority from responsibility.

The biggest mistake of the twentieth century. Go.

“I’m going to have to say that art school rejecting Hitler’s application, leading him toward the career choice of becoming a mass murderer. That or New Coke. You?”

Roen was speechless. “You… were spying on me!”

Stephen laughed. “Let’s say we used you as an unpaid intelligence consultant.”