Daniel Silva

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I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

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I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world.

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I'm a mild-mannered person.

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I'm not comfortable around guns.

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I don't have a dark side at all. I just like violence.

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Russia is classic fascism.

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After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.

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I loved September 12th. I loved the way - it's awful but, boy, did I love that day when we all came together. All the bickering stopped. All the partisan, cheap partisan warfare stopped.

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