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Everything rests on the poisoned wine. If it were just the queen, I could force it down her gullet, but Declan Broekhart would run me through with that damned ceremonial sword, and if his wife's stares were daggers, he'd be dead already.

Eoin Colfer

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Eoin Colfer
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: May 14
Author
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Science Fiction Writer
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Wexford
Wine
Daggers
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Poisoned
Dead
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Wife
Rests
Force
Damned
Running
Queen
Gullet
Everything
Queens
Ceremonial
Would
Staring
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