Tucker
There’s a chromosome that goes haywire when you turn thirteen. It commands you to live in filth
The truth always matters,
The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.
That’s why he’d hired Pender, who made the world believe what Creel wanted it to believe. It was often a war of attrition. You made up the truth and then buried the real thing under so much garbage th...
THIRTY-SEVEN
So why do you think he’s involved? This came from Agent Lafferty. Bogart turned to her, seemingly surprised that she had uttered actual words. Decker stared dead at her. Because he’s inexplicable. And...
She wrote the phone number down on another slip of paper, rushed into the bathroom, crumpled up the letter, and flushed it down the toilet. For one paralyzing moment she envisioned federal law enforce...
People who believe themselves to be True patriots tend to be zealots. Zealots, in my opinion are one short step from being lunatics.
My God, the whole world is collapsing. Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
Lots of people don’t talk about their military service. I bet heroes do. No. A pretty accurate rule of thumb is the people who did the most talk about it the least. The blowhards are the ones who did...
Life is not fair any way you cut it, Michelle. You know that and I know that. We’ve lived that stuff too often to recognize it any other way.
I’ve seen enough in this world to know that two people who can make each other that miserable must love each other a lot.
In fact, something always leads to something else.
I hate the world, said Lancaster, looking miserable. I don’t hate the world, said Decker. I only hate some of the people who unfortunately live in it.
Heard you killed ’em later on. In the woods.
He would have been forty-two years old in two months. His forty-first had been his very last birthday, as it turned out.
He was the one who told us about Ivo Mesic hightailing it out of there on the day the Ukrainian tried to kill you at DB.
He spent the next two days in careful, decisive preparation efficiently conducted around his day job. The three imperatives of his mission were embedded in every action he performed: (1) keep it simpl...
He got into the car thinking that people were interesting. Sometimes they just couldn’t distinguish the truth from bullshit. Sometimes they didn’t want to. It was often easier just to believe a lie.