For Stacy and Henry Winkler, for their friendship, support, and tireless work on behalf of children. And, as always, for my wife, Jamie, and my children, Lily and Nicholas.

On present demographic trends, by the end of the twenty-first century at the latest, Europe will be Muslim.

– BERNARD LEWIS

The threat is serious, is growing and will, I believe, be with us for a generation. It is a sustained campaign, not a series of isolated incidents. It aims to wear down our will to resist.

– DAME ELIZA MANNINGHAM-BULLER,

DIRECTOR GENERAL OF MI5

If you send a prisoner to Jordan, you get a better interrogation. If you send a prisoner, for instance, to Egypt, you will probably never see him again.

– ROBERT BAER, AS QUOTED BY

STEPHEN GREY IN Ghost Plane