Oh, hey, I said. Looks like the whole Vegas Metro SWAT division is here. Plus the FBI, Homeland Security, and probably the IRS for good measure.
Look at this writing. Can you read? What does it say? Happy…graduation, sir? It was for a funeral! Happy graduation? What’s he graduated to? Worm food?
You either need to get some kind of guarantee of silence out of Nicky Agnelli—the kind that’ll sew his lips shut for life—or start checking into countries that don’t have extradition treaties.
Of course, the best lies are always wrapped in verifiable truth. It makes the filling easier to swallow.
But it’s not about violence; it’s about doing what you can, whenever you can, to stand up for what you believe. You fight and you never, ever give up. That’s what makes a man.
My list of requirements was hard to meet. Ideally, I needed quiet neighbors, a landlord who took rent payments in cash and wasn’t picky about background checks, and hardwood floors for chalking down t...
You know the Honeydew? It’s a no-tell motel that rents by the hour, and the management has a permanent case of cash-induced amnesia.
What’s going on, Faust? Hive B. They’re running death matches for rich sickos to gamble on. Warden Lancaster and the guards are all in on it. That’s why nobody ever comes back from Hive B. They’re not...
Seems to me you’ve got two choices: one, you can get in a gunfight with the United States government—because that always ends well—or you can run downstairs, get as many of your boys out through the e...
I could see the smudge of a pistol in his reflection’s grip, aimed right at my back. I’m pretty good at reading people, I said calmly, not turning around. Figuring out their motivations. What makes th...
Hope for the best, plan for the worst,
Hit me with eighty thousand volts of electricity. Every muscle in my body went rigid, and I flopped like a fish on the pavement, hitting
You’ll want to cut your wrists with the whole knife, but you’ll only need the edge!
You mean, she said, do I want to go and hunt the Bogeyman in the dark? Why, I’d be ever so delighted. Let’s roll.
Unfortunately, Jessie said, he caught a terminal case of death.
There was a modern family for you. Demon mom, human dad, cambion kid. Just like Caitlin and me, minus the kid and the wedding rings. Wasn’t sure how I felt about that.
The pink sun tumbled from the sky like a shooting star, turning day to night in the space of a trembling breath. What rose in its place was a moon made of rotting meat, its vast surface pitted with cr...
The fact is, it just wasn’t meant to be. Crazy rich lady who wants to blow up the world, crazy demon asshole who wants to invade hell…I know, you had high hopes, but this relationship just wasn’t goin...
Luck comes naturally when you make it yourself.
Gandhi doesn’t pick up an AK-47, and Pixie doesn’t volunteer to splash blood on her hands.