Love, Colter Shaw had learned, could be an endlessly refillable prescription of madness.
I looked around the property. It’s a lot different here now, with the primary in custody and the lifter about to be nailed. You can almost enjoy it. I glanced at the imposter’s black angular machine g...
Henry Loving stimulates the amnesia gene. But it’s also true most people are simply extremely unobservant. Freddy
He Who Hesitates (1965), Blood Relatives (1975), Long Time No See (1977) and The Big Bad City (1999).
Finally, with a last glance around the store, I pushed out the door, which had a quaint old-time bell on an armature. I looked around and headed into a coffee shop nearby. DuPont Circle survives on ch...
Another thing about the outbuilding. The designers completely soundproofed the place. The reason for this was so that the principals couldn’t hear threats or demands coming from the outside. The corol...
I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.
Glanced at Pogue. From his pocket he withdrew earplugs. I was familiar with them. They block out the high decibels and pitch of gunfire but allow human voices through. He handed a pair to me. I shoved...
You’re sure it was Loving? Yes. That’s exactly the kind of strategy he’d choose. There’s no doubt it was him. I was aware of the corollary to that conclusion: Loving would know too—because of the esca...
You see tumbleweeds? You see cowpokes? Indians? This isn’t the streets of Laredo.
POGUE AND I stood outside the closed door to the outbuilding. I observed him closely for the first time. The head beneath that sandy hair was long, a predator’s skull. His features were pinched—they’d...
It's becoming apparent that I like bad boys. That's one of my problems. They've all been bad boys. You're one too. You're a bad boy. But, I think you're a good bad boy.
Islands—of times when you’re content, you don’t think about the loss. Now it’s like your world’s underwater. All of it. But the water goes down and the islands come up. The water’ll be there always bu...
In a moment the two men were on their bellies, hands bound behind them with Monadnock restraints. Other agents entered the house, searched it and then returned, calling, Clear. Claire
If they were expected, she shot back, then they wouldn’t be breakthroughs, now would they?
I sat down at my desk and ate a pickle spear and a large bite of sandwich, a Heimlich bite. I then sipped hot and strong and very good coffee. I
The Matt Scudder novels (dark), including Eight Million Ways to Die, The Devil Knows You’re Dead, and the Edgar-winning A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, and the Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries (humorous), i...
Novels Cry Hard, Cry Fast (1955), Murdering the Wind (1956), Slam the Big Door (1960), A Flash of Green (1962), and the astonishingly good The End of the Night (1960) were among his finest work. There...
Even souvenir seekers. One of the worst contaminants was fellow officers, especially brass grandstanding if reporters were present and eager to grab a video bite to slap on the twenty-four-hour news c...
Which one I like better? That’s the question, Mr. Tour Guide. I felt suddenly awkward, like I was being tested on something I hadn’t studied for. I didn’t really know which one I liked more. The only...