Chris Teasley came on. She said, Um, Agent Corte. Officer Corte, I corrected. My organization is an office, not a bureau or an agency. When Congress gave Abe the money that’s what he created.
Every case I worked is closed. All the principals were either abducted and resettled . . . or zeroed, she said, using a verb that I’d heard from time to time if my principal was in a similar line of w...
He Who Hesitates (1965), Blood Relatives (1975), Long Time No See (1977) and The Big Bad City (1999).
He tapped his pistol. I’m loaded with Glasers. Safety bullets. Powerful rounds that can kill, but they won’t penetrate Sheetrock and injure bystanders. They’re called suburb slugs.
Hollow then produced Kobel’s tax returns for the past three years.
I realized finally what the problem was, I told Maree. It wasn’t him. It was my wife. She was treating him like a normal human being. Polite, giving him the benefit of the doubt, humoring him. She was...
I want to say something, I told her. It’s important. Under these circumstances, she said, with a dark grin, one wouldn’t really expect unimportant, now, would one?
Love, son, is not manifest in the gift of gadgets or coddling foods or rooms of one’s own. Love shows itself in discipline and example and sacrifice—even giving up one’s life.
Maree opened her eyes wide. Wait, wait . . . I know you. She regarded me with a frown. I must have blinked in surprise. Had we met? The woman added, You’re on that reality show. The Vacation from Hell...
Not dying isn’t the same as being alive. You’re only alive when you’re surviving. And you only survive when there’s a risk there’s something you can lose. The more you risk losing, the more you’re ali...
Now, I regarded my opponent carefully, as if we were sitting across from each other over a chessboard. Zagaev had a round head, a double chin that his beard obscured pretty well and bristly hair that...
One said, Nobody paused in front of the house since we’ve been here. I slipped my ID case away. Any out-of-state tags? Didn’t notice any. Different answer from No. One
Remember, people hassle you in all sorts of different ways. Don’t assume they’re right and you’re wrong just because they know something you don’t. The question is: Do you need to know it to do a bett...
Rhyme couldn't remember what he looked like. From his voice he sounded fit and athletic, but then Rhyme supposed he himself might seem like an Olympian to someone who couldn't see his destroyed body.
That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.
The Way Some People Die (1951), The Ivory Grin (1952), and The Far Side of the Dollar (1965) are particularly good novels. The Chill (1964)
The pain, you know. It’s one hell of a way to die.
The sky was overcast and the scenery was probably what it had been for dozens of years: bungalow farmhouses, shacks, trailers and motor vehicles in terminal condition but still functioning if the nurs...
We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.
Yield and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend.
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