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...
They’re Wildcat Sport XTs. Four-stroke engines, double A-arm suspension, front differential locks. Those babies can haul ass. Which isn’t going to mean a thing, Paul said, when you ram straight into a...
Solitary confinement? That’s where they stick you. Hell, you can do your whole sentence in solitary. Pros: you won’t get stabbed. Cons: you’ll probably go insane from the isolation.
Ski masks might be traditional attire for a burglary, but buying four of them when there was no snow on the ground was a great way to stand out like a sore thumb. Believe it or not, cops follow up on...
Most modern cell phones have a built-in GPS chip, even if you don’t have any kind of GPS software. Allegedly to make it easier for emergency services to find you when you dial 911. Allegedly? Caitlin...
It’s true. We get these hormonal urges to tear down corrupt corporations and send entitled billionaire assholes to prison. I shrugged. Women, right?
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.
Do you have the soul? Where is it now? she asked, a little too urgently for my liking. Stashed someplace safe, I told her. That someplace was the trunk of my car parked out in the driveway, but I didn...
When Harmony Black and her task force came to town, my girlfriend promised she’d find the best lawyer around. That was Perkins. He was so slick he didn’t have fingerprints—literally—and I’d gotten the...
Well, the only person I really have to impress is Sullivan, and from what I heard he wasn’t keen on spending too much time having a deep conversation with the guy. Hopefully he’ll overlook it. And if...
Ugh. She rolled her eyes. Ever wonder why that's the conversational default? People always want to know your job. Not what you love, what you hate, but what you do to earn money. What does that say ab...
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...
Sunrise came like a stampede of bulls, kicking me out of bed and into the shower as my mind lurched into high gear.
She pointed at our hands. Are you two rutting? That is so gross. Justine stood next to her with her mouth agape. You are so gross. No, Caitlin said, grinning. We’re holding hands. What I did with your...
She had personal details about my relationships that only my close friends should have known. So you’ve got a stalker, I said to my reflection in the rearview mirror. And she eats people. Great.
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...
Now you’ve brought him in for a burglary that, unless I’m mistaken, didn’t actually take place. He was in the process of breaking into the building, she said. We caught him in the act. Somehow, his sm...
Nobody answered. I put my thumb on the hammer of my gun and cocked it back. A meaningless gesture on most modern pistols, but thanks to Hollywood it got the point across. I’ve got four hostages here,...
This was the real blues, down-home raw and ragged, drenched with sweat and sex and the bloodied edge of a switchblade.