You put a certain amount of effort into stitching a jacket or dress and you get the garment you expect. There's no mystery. But you put a thousand times more effort into raising your child and the res...
Report! Freddy shouted. His fellow agents called back about their condition. They were all accounted for. One had a slight burn and another had been cut, breaking through a window to flood the basemen...
God don't give out certain.
We’re defined and enlivened by what opposes us. And when the Watchmaker died, Lincoln Rhyme died a bit too.
The pictures slipped past again and I kept looking at them. Some of the scans were sepia pictures, going back a hundred years; some were black-and-white; some were oversaturated, from the sixties and...
Was a lean, unsmiling man, a dusting of short gray hair on his head.
Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.
It's a tough life, she'd said. It's the little things that get us through the day.
He’d never been a people person. He was a science person. A mind person.
This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. —ARISTOTLE
But it works that way if it works.
Natural selection applies to criminal activity, as well as to newts and simians.
Ed McBain
I didn’t blame him one bit. I’d give them up too, in circumstances like that. Abe Fallow himself said to me when I joined our organization, Corte, listen. Rule number one, and it’s a rule we don’t men...
When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.
What’d he do? Your stepfather?
I went to the CD player, choosing some soft and soothing soprano sax, courtesy of the late Art Porter.
I sat for a moment and again looked out the window of my organization’s unmarked headquarters in Old Town Alexandria, the building aggressively ugly, 1970s ugly. I stared at a wedge of grass, an antiq...
Because of her frenetic nature and dancing mind, she chatted up a storm with the subjects she interviewed, who ended up overwhelmed or intimidated. Or captivated.
Well, to the matter at hand, Westerfield said. I was pretty surprised the whole morass rose as high as it did. He caught that mixed metaphor, at least, and hesitated. Then: A U.S. senator. Hm. His voi...