{"author":"A. Ashley Straker","author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker","total_quotes":35,"quotes":[{"text":"Who gave you a gun?''The army.''Why?''That's what the army does, Simon.","author":"A. Ashley Straker","tags":["action","army","guns","horror","humour","shooting","thriller"],"id":31722,"author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker"},{"text":"Raven scowled at her. 'Fine. But if I accidentally shoot you because my aim is shaky, because I'm too tense, because I wasn't given the chance to relax before going into a potentially very dangerous situation, you'll be happy blaming only yourself?","author":"A. Ashley Straker","tags":["action","agents","blame","danger","shooting","thriller"],"id":56065,"author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker"},{"text":"Fear is quite the anaesthetic.","author":"A. Ashley Straker","tags":["action","anaesthetic","fear","horror","thriller"],"id":64442,"author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker"},{"text":"The Gobi wasn't completely devoid of life; its ecosystem was unexpectedly extensive and varied given the extremes to which it subjected its denizens, but some of those forms of life weren't the kind that Anna wanted to admire too closely.","author":"A. Ashley Straker","tags":["desert","ecosystem","extremes","life","science","thriller"],"id":64474,"author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker"},{"text":"Max?' he asked.'Yeah?''...What are you doing?''Shooting people.","author":"A. Ashley Straker","tags":["action","fighting","horror","humour","shooting","soldier","thriller"],"id":70725,"author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker"},{"text":"He reached the ground floor and flung the door open, fleeing into the street. He glanced back and saw that she wasn't following, so he slowed to a halt. His pulse raced. The entranceway was dark, the door swinging slowly closed. Movement to his left caught his attention: the camera on the corner of the building that covered the resident's parking. It swivelled to point directly at him, and he stared at it for a moment, suddenly doubtful it was a closed-circuit system after all.He ran for his car, and the camera followed.","author":"A. Ashley Straker","tags":["camera","cctv","chased","horror","paranoia","technology","thriller"],"id":97820,"author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker"},{"text":"...While the stony bones of the world tore past and the air grew dark and howling. The last thing he saw as the gulley became a torrent of dust and rock was the Jeep, plucked backwards into space.","author":"A. Ashley Straker","tags":["action","apocalypse","darkness","destruction","horror","jeep","technology","thriller"],"id":113502,"author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker"},{"text":"Raven briefly pondered the phrase, 'staring down the barrel of a gun'. It wasn't really that accurate, he decided. After all, it was too dark to see any features down a barrel, only a black circle at the end of it.","author":"A. Ashley Straker","tags":["action","agent","gun","stand-off","staring","thriller"],"id":127555,"author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker"},{"text":"Simon stopped listening. He realised he'd had enough. Enough of the theories, enough of the mystery, enough of the bullshit. Enough of the soldiers and guns and MI5. Enough of bugs in phones and in people he cared about. Enough of not being cared about back. Enough of uncertainty and lies and civilisation, collapsing or not. Enough of is part in it, his place, his role; the character of Simon Parfitt and all the baggage it entailed.","author":"A. Ashley Straker","tags":["action","baggage","bugs","civilisation","end-of-the-world","fed-up","horror","soldiers","spiders","technology","thriller"],"id":174509,"author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker"},{"text":"Did you consider anything like the Infected?' Simon had asked.'Not quite. But some of our other contingency plans might help us out with this particular mission.","author":"A. Ashley Straker","tags":["action","conspiracy","contingency","government","paranoia","thriller"],"id":187534,"author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}