I didn’t think you’d know it. You’re a little… older. I laughed. If she’d been trying to get a rise out of me, she had missed the mark. I’m never going to be sensitive about my age. Most of the people...
His eyes were still on me, but they no longer perceived. I stepped back, out of their sightless ambit, and paused to observe the scene. It looked like what it almost was: a weightlifting addict, alone...
Graham smiled and filled it all the way, then said, What the hell and did the same for his own. He took a sip and made an mmmmm sound. That’s a Peruvian varietal, from Ritual Coffee Roasters in San Fr...
But it seemed clever and careful was exactly what drew the attention of God’s Eye.
At the outset of the second of these Hong Kong excursions, I noticed an Arab standing in the lobby of the Macau Mandarin Oriental as we moved through it. He was new, not one of Belghazi’s bodyguards....
A turtle doesn’t get up on a bookshelf by itself,
Salubrious
Insolence
You don’t just childproof your guns, was how he put it. You also gun-proof your child.
When Mom and Dad die, they’re taken care of by strangers in a nursing home two towns over. The kids don’t have to see them go. They don’t even have to see them after. They just get a we’re sorry to in...
Trust your gut. When you felt something was off, you had to believe that feeling, even if you couldn’t articulate the basis.
There they were, fanned out behind him like two points at the base of a moving scalene triangle.
Rationalization was my narcotic. And, as with all drugs, over time, I habituated to mine. I needed more and more to accomplish less and less. Eventually, there was no dose at all that could confer the...
Karate moved slowly through the lobby. His gaze went to Belghazi and his eyes hardened in a way that would mean nothing to most people but that meant a great deal to me. From this gaze I understood Ka...
I thought of an old poker players’ expression: If you look around the table and can’t spot the sucker, the sucker is you.
I sighed. Two goodbyes in one night. It was depressing. And it wasn’t as though I had a whole Rolodex full of friends. But no sense being sentimental about it. Sentiment is stupid.
I pulled on a pair of shorts and did two hundred and fifty Hindu push-ups, five hundred Hindu squats, several minutes of neck bridges, front and back, and a variety of other bodyweight calisthenics an...
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light; I would spread the cloths under your feet...
Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster.
Asian face and local language skills to handle the cash. I had just returned to the States from Vietnam, having left the military under a cloud, the origins of which I was able to understand only year...