Favor? Stop putting real occult-underground shit in your books. You’re gonna get yourself in trouble. Or you’re gonna get me in trouble. Come
I moved low across the lawn, keeping it smooth and quiet. I didn’t expect a lot of resistance—professional grave robbing, as a career, was about a hundred years past its sell-by date—but I figured the...
I promised Coop two things before he died, I said. One, I’d get his cut of the score to his wife. Two, I’d send Stanwyck to hell where he belongs. I’m keeping those promises. The latter, Caitlin said...
I will try to contact Caine, he said, but I can’t guarantee— That’s it, hanging up. See ya in hell, Alton. Wait! Wait, wait, wait! I’ll do it. I’ll call Caine right now and give the order. He fell sil...
If you want to be human, you’d better go buy a house in the suburbs, play golf, and cheat on your taxes, because that’s the closest you’re ever gonna get.
In my experience, the handoff was the most dangerous part of a deal. If your client decided to pay you in bullets instead of cash, this was where it would go down.
It looked like a cutoff valve. Assuming I had any idea what I was looking at. Assuming it would work. Assuming the whole rig wasn’t an elaborate fail-safe, a trap that would start the killing rain as...
It’s not all sex work, of course. Any business of that size needs support and grounds staff— Gee, Mom. Melanie’s voice dripped with sarcasm. Can I get a summer job there? I’ll be the best jizz-mopper...
Now, neither of you gentlemen are under my court’s authority, so I can’t technically pass my formal judgment upon you. I think…we’ll just call this a double homicide.
Pix? I said. Pretend for a second that I’m not a hacker. I’m a jobber in a tag-team cage match against John Cena and The Rock. My partner just got laid out cold with a folding chair, and the referee i...
Redemption Choir. Half-demons who want to be human, I said. So they’re the good guys. No, I said. They’re nuts, and they just kidnapped a priest. They’re the bad guys. Who’s AB? Special Agent Harmony...
You were going to betray me! Sullivan roared, slamming his fist on the table. Lauren bared her teeth. You were going to betray me! I jumped up onto my chair and climbed onto the dinner table, standing...
This should set you free. It’s okay, Stacy. You’re going to a better place. Um, Daniel? Caitlin said beside me. Yeah? She shook her head. You do know she’s going to hell, right? I froze, my fingers ti...
Tonight, Lauren Carmichael and her followers are going to open the Etruscan Box. If she succeeds, it’s pretty much game over for the entire planet. Not that we’ll be around to worry about it, because...
Watch your mouth, Emma said. I can’t…I can’t even deal with you right now. Go to your room. We’ll discuss this in the morning. Mom, c’mon— I could see Emma’s eyes flash copper from across the room, gl...
Westie grinned. First men to ever escape the Iceberg. Hell, I bet they’ll make a movie about us. George Clooney might play me. You don’t look anything like George Clooney, Jake said. Said might, not w...
We’ll put in at a private airport—the owner goes deaf and blind if you kick him twenty bucks—and head for this place in the French Quarter. Restaurant with a sideline in moving contraband. They know m...
What about the second floor? Coop said. Any other security up there? My gaze flicked to the screen. I kept seeing the other photos, the ones I couldn’t show them, fresh in my mind’s eye. Yeah. But tha...
Whatever you did, man, you laid her to rest. I didn’t lay Stacy’s soul to rest. I sent her to hell. It wasn’t my finest hour.
With that fence it’s a total blind approach to the back door, I thought. Anyone could be hiding around that corner. Guards don’t care. They’ve run this route a thousand times for a thousand days; they...
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