Matt gazed at the man who had caused him so much torment, who had tried to kill him and who had been responsible for the deaths of his friends. “Why did you do it?” he asked. “You’e rich. You have all these houses. You’ve got a huge business. Why isn’t it enough?”
Salamanda laughed. “You’re a child!” he wailed, “or you’d understand. There’s no such thing as enough.” He fell silent. Nothing moved. The people inside the laboratory were either unconscious or dead. Still there wasn’t a hint of a breeze. “Do you have any idea how much I hate you?” Salamanda asked.
“Hate is all you have,” Matt replied.
-- The Power of Five (book two): Evil Star (Anthony Horowitz, pg 330-331)
CONTACTMUSIC.COM (27 May, 2013) -- The Stormbreaker scribe was forced to pull out of appearances at South Africa's Franschhoek Literary Festival earlier this month (May 13) due to "medical reasons", and Horowitz has taken to his Twitter.com page to detail his injury.
In a series of posts, he writes, "Huge apologies to everyone I let down in S. Africa. A slipped disc in my neck - horribly painful. I have now slept for 100 hours... It's been a rough few weeks."
Other sources: Post-Franschhoek, Anthony Horowitz in Cape Town, Cancellation: Anthony Horowitz Unable to Appear at the Franschhoek Literary Festival