I’m thinking about it, she mused, almost to herself. The building burned. . . . There was a DNA match. I recall the report. There were some typos in it, remember? Claire duBois was older than her adol...
I was satisfied that it would be virtually impossible for Loving to find any connection. Call him. I handed Ryan a mobile, a flip phone, black, a little larger than your standard Nokia or Samsung. Wha...
I was disappointed. Voice analysis can tell a lot about the caller: gender, most of the time, national and regional roots, illnesses, even reasonable morphological deductions can be made about the sha...
His rules were unencumbered by my constraints—the Constitution and the laws promulgated thereunder. Still,
Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories (1997),
Doctor, do you read the Harry Potter books? Well, as a matter of fact, yes, I have. The fourth was my favorite. What was yours? Umm, I don’t know really. Is it possible, the prosecutor asked the witne...
Criminalistics doesn't exist in a vacuum. The more you know about your environment, the better you can apply- (This quote was never completed in the book because Rhyme stopped abruptly at the end of i...
Accordingly, the occupant of the car was not Aslan Zagaev, nor was it one of the tactical agents. It was Omar, essentially a robotic head and torso, with a few servo motors inside that let him—well, i...
You know, Lincoln, my father always said you can never trust anybody when they answer a question with a question.
What would it be like to tattoo a living, beating heart? Could it be done?
Time transcends morality
The workbench was filled with glassware, books, syringes, tattooing machine parts, plastic bags, tools. Dozens of books on toxins and thousands of downloaded Internet documents,
The human creature is so astonishing, but count on it before anything else to be just that-a creature. A laughing animal, a dangerous one, a clever one, a scared one, but always acting for a reason-a...
Remember that this is a game of defense as well as offense and be prepared to protect the areas which you occupy. —FROM THE INSTRUCTIONS TO THE BOARD GAME RISK
Never kill an animal but for three reasons: for food or hide, for defense, for mercy.
Loving was playing a Bayesian game now, one modeled on imperfect information.
James M. Cain (1892–1977) wrote two indisputable masterpieces, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity.
I returned to our surveillance. The houses around us reminded me of Ryan Kessler’s place. About every fifth one was, if not identical, then designed from the same mold. We were staring through bushes...
I paused to listen too. Dogs track by smell first, then sound and then sight. Humans are different but hearing comes second with them as well. Always listen and listen carefully. Your prey makes noise...
His best work bore the stamp of John O’Hara and John P. Marquand.