Bill Smoke is an assassin who kills on behalf of Seaboard Power. He starts off working with Grimaldi and Napier but is ultimately a free agent who ends up working for Wiley and Hooks. Bill Smoke specializes in assaults and murders that look like accidents, and he enjoys getting to know future victims. He is a purely evil character who helps set the melodramatic detective-novel tone of “Half-Lives.”
Bill Smoke Quotes in Cloud Atlas
The Cloud Atlas quotes below are all either spoken by Bill Smoke or refer to Bill Smoke. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3
Quotes
He yanks the wheel sharply, and metal screams as the Beetle is sandwiched between his car and the bridge railing until the railing unzips from its concrete and the Beetle lurches out into space.
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Bill Smoke Quotes in Cloud Atlas
The Cloud Atlas quotes below are all either spoken by Bill Smoke or refer to Bill Smoke. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 3
Quotes
He yanks the wheel sharply, and metal screams as the Beetle is sandwiched between his car and the bridge railing until the railing unzips from its concrete and the Beetle lurches out into space.
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
