My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

I have a couple of questions," he said. "Do, please, go ahead." "My first one is for Yassen Gregorovich." He turned to the Russian. "Why are you working for this lunatic?" "I sometimes think that I was richer when I was eight years old than most people will be in their lifetime!" "Do we have to listen to this?" Alex asked.

I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.

You must have been going very fast." "I was, until I hit the fence.

We live in an age when there is no room for the impossible.

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.