“They stay on the fringe of the plot. They are the professionals, the entrepreneurs; the links between the businessmen, the politicians who desire the end but are afraid of the means, and the fanatics, the idealists who are prepared to die for their convictions.

“The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot but who paid for the bullet.”

- A Coffin for Dimitrios, by Eric Ambler https://v.nostr.build/PQVFFlCGU5HO8OyW.mp4