I realize you’re a politician, so this is a new concept for you. ‘Cooperating’ means actually doing what you’re supposed to, not just saying you will and then weaseling out.
I explained Crime 101 to the kid. Guns escalate things. They’re only good for crowd control. We’re going in after closing hours, so we don’t need crowd control. Yeah, Augie said, but what about securi...
I could imagine I was on a college campus, if it weren’t for the fences, the gun towers, and the razor wire.
His eyes bulged. How the hell…who are you people? She’s the right hand of a demon prince, I told him, and I’m her boyfriend. Probably should have found that out before you blasted me with a fire hose,...
Can he? Margaux said. I shrugged. He wouldn’t be the first racket boss to get taken down in Vegas, not by a long shot, but he’s got access to the kind of resources no human gangster could dream of. Bu...
Just one question: how did you break the curse? Easy, I said. C’mon, sentenced to life in prison? That’s how I knew something was fishy. You would have moved heaven and earth to get me out of here. Be...
I’m taking my cash and going somewhere with sunny skies, frosty drinks, and no extradition treaty with the US.
I was about one demographic too old, one decade out of fashion, and two tax brackets too poor to hang with this crowd.
I looked around, my heart pounding faster, trying to spot it before it could get the jump on me. The creature was near, but the noise sounded like it was coming from everywhere at once. No, I realized...
I knew a junkie when I saw one, and this guy was a long-term member of the heroin weight-loss program.
I felt like the sheriff in an old Western, gearing up for a showdown at high noon, only to find out the black-hat outlaw accidentally fell off his horse and died from a concussion on his way to the gu...
I don’t know what rock you crawled out from under, but I do know this: you came in here under false pretenses, then you scared my husband, and you hurt our boy. That puts you about two notches lower t...
I could see the sorrow in her eyes as she gently brushed his hair aside and kissed his brow. Then she snapped his neck. Ben’s corpse tumbled to the floor. Emma sank to her knees beside him, mute. She...
How do you feel about sushi? she asked. After a week of hospital food, I’d eat my own shoe and like it. Sushi sounds great.
Honor, she said, is the coin that stays in your pocket when all your silver has been spent.
Hey, Nadine? I said. She glanced my way. I normally have strong objections to hitting a woman, I said, but if you talk to my girlfriend like that again, I could see myself getting over it real fast.
He was already an accomplished sorcerer, insofar as we can gather, and he began having visions of the Garden. He felt it calling to him, promising him the power of a god. Is that before or after he st...
He was a rogue agent, acting without my prince’s sanction. Also, we wrote a letter of apology. Don’t know what else you want from us. That’s funny, I said. I didn’t get one. Did you send it to my old...
Good evening, Eisenberg Correctional. This is your new warden speaking. You may have noticed that every single door in the prison has just opened. This is in keeping with our new ‘leave whenever you w...
Carl Holt, I mused, fighting to keep the surprise from my voice. Oh, I remember him from the news. Wasn’t he that corrupt cop who was killed with his buddy, the Satan-worshipping porno director?