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.
So with the endorsement of the Chamber of Commerce, in 1980 Sparky Harper invited fifty travel writers from all newspapers all across North America to come to Miami during Orange Bowl Week and sail th...
Skip Wiley was thirty-seven years old but he had the eyes of an old Gypsy.
Poison, said Rose Jewell with a frown. No thanks. She was about forty years old and fearlessly attractive. The detective office had come to a standstill when she’d walked in—white cotton pullover, tig...
One day he just 'snapped.' That's Mom's word for what happened. Some brat yanked one too many times on his tail, and Grandpa Kenneth spun around and punted him halfway down Main Street USA. The kid's...
One day he came home to find her burning his collection of heavy-metal CDs, which she had taken to calling devil wafers. She
Now, re-reading Macauley by firelight, Sammy Tigertail struggled to envision the noble and fiercely insulated culture so admiringly documented in those pages. He wondered what the journalist-preacher...
Not my circus, not my monkey. Yancy
Nobody said he was Alvin Einstein.
Nobody from the Amazing Kingdom bothered to check with previous employers, such as the New York City Police Department, to inquire about allegations of bribery, moral turpitude, substance abuse, witne...
My father used to say that you live most of your life inside your own head, so make sure it's a good space.
Mr. Cabal’s lawyer didn’t appreciate your description of his client as ‘yellow-bellied vermin culled from the stinkpot of Castro’s jails for discharge at Mariel’s harbor of shame.
Mickey Cray was surprised to learn that Derek Badger didn’t want any of his captive critters on location. Mickey had never wrangled for a nature show that used only wild animals, nor had he ever encou...
Mick Stranahan’s sister was married to a lawyer named Kipper Garth, inept in all aspects of the profession except self-promotion.
Miami ... the floating-human-body-parts capital of America.
Maureen closed her eyes. Listen to me, Earl. It's yourself you ought to be thinking about. Life goes by so darn fast, every wasted moment is a crime. One blue eye opened and fixed on him. And every c...
Look, I'll tell you the whole story, everything, but first let me dry off and put on some clothes, please?''No, you stay right there.' The man rose and reached for the toilet paper. 'In my experience,...
In appearance though, Darrell seemed anything but a criminal. Erin was still naive enough to believe that all crooks had bad teeth, greasy hair and jailhouse tattoos. She assumed that cleancut, good-l...
He was accompanied by his occasional 'security assistant,' a man called Prawney, who was tall, bald, and African-American. These characteristics were practically mandatory at the security firm that em...
Guess what I got in the trunk? An Igloo cooler. And guess what's in the cooler? A human head.'Shad violently expelled the cigar out the window. He wiped his mouth on the sleeve of his camo jacket.'No...