But game theory only works when the rules are clearly set out ahead of time. In the Nash bargaining game here, neither of the players was aware of another rule presently at work: that what they were b...
And him? I looked toward the revived guard. Freddy said, Wants a lawyer like a baby wants a bottle.
You know what he was telling me just the other day? What? Korea, right, you’d think it was tea, tea, tea. Like China and Japan. But the last emperor of Korea, his name was Sunjong, the nineteen twenti...
You bet they did. Dellray was there. You should've seen him. He ordered every other case put on hold and said if metallurgy report wasn't in your hands ASAP there'd be one mean mother——you get the pic...
What would it be like to tattoo a living, beating heart? Could it be done?
The young woman shrugged, walked to her computer, picked it up. She flopped down on the couch and scanned through it. This was something else I’d noticed that my principals had done more and more rece...
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.
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...
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.
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...
Anthony Boucher (1911–1968) was one of the most remarkable figures ever produced by the mystery genre. And
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.
Sometimes you just find yourself standing in need to do something. No matter it seems hopeless.
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.
Knuckle time referred to those moments when you have to go up against your worst fears.
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'm not your proverbial worst nightmare because nightmares aren't real and I am more real than anybody wants to admit.