I want to burn down the distance between us>
Breuning drove. Dudley sat up front Carlisle sat in back, with three sawed-off shotguns.
After over six hundred hours of listening, John knew two more things: That the most profound truth lay in the labyrinths that coiled behind a green door in the interviewee's mind the very second that...
Howard got sex-crazy in the winter and probably wanted to send him out on a poontang prowl: Schwab's Drugstore, the extra huts at Fox and Universal, Brownie snapshots of well-lunged girls naked from t...
He was wearing an American Legion poppy on his lapel – probably purchased from the wino legionnaire who slept in the Hall of Records parking lot – a man he had once vigorously prosecuted for vagrancy....
Claire De Haven and the company cared for the plight of the world. Claire De Haven and the company extolled tyrants andlived for adversarial cliché.
A key-in-lock noise jarred him. He walked into the living room. Mariko had 11:00 a.m. booze breath. He said, Hello, Mother. She spoke slurred Japanese back. He bowed and tried to take her hand. She pu...
I saw crime everywhere. Crime was not isolated incidents destined for ultimate solution and adjudication. Crime was the continual circumstance. It was all day, every day. The ramifications extended to...
I roamed L.A. by night. I got repeatedly rousted by LAPD. I sensed that a cop-street fool compact existed. I behaved accordingly. I denied all criminal intent. I acted respectfully. My height-to-weigh...
I loved men and was going mad with suppressed desire. It pushed me into a series of affairs with dubious jazz musicians. Sex was not what I imagined. It was tension, scent and prosaic misalliance. It...
I got an alibi, just in case you think I did it. Tighter than a crab's ass, and that is tight.