Listening to a sermonizer who above all loves to hear himself sermonize is about as much fun as having your toes sheared off
Jerry
It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label...
It was the darkest moments before dawn broke. He had been here for hours. It felt like ten minutes, because he really hadn’t come up with anything. But that was okay. Miracles and epiphanies rarely ha...
I remember thinking about her that it’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Dead by her hand. All dead. The price of her freedom? Chung-Cha’s soul.
CIA
CHUNG-CHA HAD NEVER MET a westerner who could tell the difference between a Chinese and a Japanese, much less a North Korean and a South Korean.
Big F took out a small box, unwrapped
An SJH, in ballistics shorthand. It was a brutally efficient piece of ordnance. Not exactly a dum-dum, named after Dum-Dum, India, where a British army officer had invented a bullet that mushroomed ou...
Your butt somehow. Jordan shrugged. I just took
What I do have, and so are my clients. He took the piece he was carrying and set it up on an empty easel but did not uncover it.
Was the master; humans were merely visiting.
Vital first
Two unconscious, bleeding men and then over at the girl behind the bar. She was staring at him openmouthed, the glass-rag and beer mug clutched in her
Town.
Time—quite the reverse. Puller hadn’t even reached his Malibu when he heard the man.
Tightly and a vein throbbed at his temple. The two guards led Rogers down a long hallway. On each side were barred cell doors. The men behind them had been talking, but when Rogers came into view they...
The laundry, and took, in amicable
The business of politics, which essentially meant screwing others before they got around to screwing you.