You’d be surprised, he said. Just the other night, some guy pushed his wife overboard. The snip-snip-snip of the shears ceased.
Sparky Harper and the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce adored travel writers because travel writers never wrote stories about street crime, water pollution, fish kills, beach erosion, refugees, AIDS...
Some crazy shithead with a .38--it's the story of America, isn't it?''We live in violent times. That's what they say.''Guys like that, they give violence a bad name.
Quit being an asshole, Nicky. You weren't in the medical care business, you were in the stealing business.
Please don't grow up to be one of those men who lie for the sport of it, and most men do. That's a fact. That's why the world is so messed up, Noah. That's why history books are full of so much hearta...
Malcolm J. Moldowsky did not hesitate to address United States Congressman Dave Dilbeck as 'a card-carrying shithead.
Malcolm J. Moldowsky could see the ugliness unfolding. It would take all his subterranean talents to save the sugar bill, and he couldn't do it if Dilbeck got caught in a sex scandal. After years of s...
It was inevitable that the poacher and the counterfeiter would bond, sharing as they did a blanket contempt for government, taxes, homosexuals, immigrants, minorities, gun laws, assertive women and ho...
It occurred to Yancy that, in the time they’d known each other, he hadn’t once seen her look at her cell phone. She never texted, tweeted, Facebooked, Instagrammed, or posted a single picture when the...
In all the years, only one person had been foolhardy enough to try to fight Trooper Jim Tile. The boy's name was Dekle, and he was eighteen, as big and white as a Frigidaire, and just about as intelli...
I mean, you’ve got thirty detectives working on this murder, right? You must have had a list of suspects. Not on this one. So what we’re talking about is blind luck. Some Beach cop nails the guy for r...
He nearly died.''Yeah, because he's a fool,' Mickey said. 'There's no known cure for that.
Guess I’ll have to come back another day and try again, Roy thought. That’s what a real Florida boy would do.
From the bow of the canoe she asked, Do you know a rain dance?First I need a virgin.
Eugenie Fonda sat on the balcony of her sixth-floor room, fanning her freshly painted toes and watching the sun melt like sorbet into the Gulf of Mexico. Her third Bacardi was sweating cool droplets t...
Damn it, Billy, you did it again. People don't buy townhouses on 'canals'. 'Canal' is a dirty word. A canal is where raw sewage goes. A canal is where ducks fuck and cattle piss. Who'd want to live on...
Andrew couldn't stand politics and generally detested the senators and congressmen who paid so exorbitantly for his image-shaping skills. Desie came to admire Andrew for hating his own work--only a hi...
Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.
Flap opened on one of the tents, and a gangly figure crawled out. It was Mrs. Starch. She rose slowly, brushing herself off, her eyes blazing at the sight of Nick and Marta.
What happened to your eye, young lady? I fell down the stairs. What happened to your hair?