The President’s face set itself in a fixed grimace. ‘I asked the French President to cancel that bounty and you know what he said to me? He said, “Monsieur, I will accede to your demands on finance, trade, on Afghanistan, even on Iran, but I will not belay that order. That man killed French soldiers, destroyed a French submarine and sank a French aircraft carrier. The Republic of France will not rest until he is dead.”’
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves by Matthew Reilly
The President’s face set itself in a fixed grimace. ‘I asked the French President to cancel that bounty and you know what he said to me? He said, “Monsieur, I will accede to your demands on finance, trade, on Afghanistan, even on Iran, but I will not belay that order. That man killed French soldiers, destroyed a French submarine and sank a French aircraft carrier. The Republic of France will not rest until he is dead.”’
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves by Matthew Reilly
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