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Publié par | Everest Media LLC |
Date de parution | 24 mars 2022 |
Nombre de lectures | 0 |
EAN13 | 9781669363743 |
Langue | English |
Poids de l'ouvrage | 1 Mo |
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Insights on Amaryllis Fox's Life Undercover
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 16 Insights from Chapter 17 Insights from Chapter 18 Insights from Chapter 19 Insights from Chapter 20
Insights from Chapter 1
#1
I can see Mr. Ed fiddling with cooking utensils at a market stall while we wait. He seems to be alone, and there is a foreign angle to his face. He may be checking me out in preparation for tomorrow's meeting.
#2
I boarded the bus and took a seat in the women’s compartment. I was headed to check out the target of a potential nuclear terror attack. The Karachi Press Club was the target, and it was easy to see why. It didn’t exactly scream Western excess.
#3
The question for al Qa’ida since 9/11 has been where to go from there. What could offer more haunting imagery than jetliners plowing into skyscrapers. What could be more destructive than killing three thousand people on a random Tuesday morning.
Insights from Chapter 2
#1
My parents were very different from one another. My father was a spreadsheet-like person, while my mother was an Impressionist painting-like person. My father was American, and my mother was English. They had very different personalities and habits, but they loved me very much.
#2
When I was seven, my brother was accepted to Wicken Park, an English boarding school, before Eton. We had to protect the villagers from spaceship attacks down in our basement.
#3
I treat every day of the hot, sticky summer that follows like a numbered jewel, noting every time an activity might be our last. In the midst of those last months, my mother’s belly begins to swell like the popcorn frying pan on the stove. We are going to have a sister.
#4
When we moved to London, I took the top floor bedroom, with a sloped ceiling and a window that I would climb through to watch Big Ben strike ten. I felt small and vast at the same time.
#5
I start at the American School in St.