A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.

You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.

You do not mess with the special investigators.

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.