A diplomatic passport for a Tal Zahavi, with a current photo of Yael-1. The same birth date as in the other passport. The interior must have had fifty entry stamps for European and South American coun...
You’re saying the media is dangerous, immoral, and antidemocratic?
Marlys was a sturdy woman in her fifties, white curls clinging to her scalp like vanilla frosting. She wore rimless glasses, a homemade red-checked gingham dress, and low-topped Nikes. Short-nosed and...
I don’t know. He was hit hard. Bleeding out his mouth, bright red blood, so he probably took a hit to his lung. He was alive when they took him into the operating room . . . Lucas gave him the details...
Does Raggedy Ann have a cotton crotch?
The thing about Botox is that when you've had too much, you then have to fake reactions just to look human--and it's impossible to distinguish real fake reactions from fake fake reactions.
Even thinking was hard.
Did he ever ask you . . . or suggest to you . . . that he might want to pull some kind of dirty trick on Senator Smalls? Oh, no, he would never have done that, Fey said. I mean, he might have tried to...
They didn’t talk for a while. Johnson popped the top on the second beer, took a long swig, then tossed the nearly full can over his shoulder and down the hill. Good-bye, old friend, he said. I’ll beli...
The press conference was held in a courtroom at the new county courthouse, a space that did its best to translate justice into laminated wood.
I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having its motives questioned.
He went on like that for a while, and before he was done, Lucas had dismissed him as being ineffectually goofy, although his ideas about the killing were roughly the same as Lucas’s own. Holly said he...
Flowers said, I got two bottles of water in the car.Get them. And get your gun, Lucas said.The gun? You think?No. I just like to see you wearing the fuckin’ gun for a change, Lucas said. C’mon, let’s...
Trust no one, everything breaks, nothing works as advertised, and if anything can go wrong, it will.
Time passes, but sometimes it beats the shit out of you as it goes.
Though wickedly aware of his surroundings, he didn’t look around; looking around attracted the eye. People who saw him would ask themselves, Why’s that guy looking around like that? He’d learned not t...
The local farmers, of course, were bitching because the bean and corn harvests were going to be huge and the prices depressed. Of course, if it hadn’t rained, they’d be bitching because their crops we...
The gun locked open and he slammed another magazine in. As he did it, he either saw or imagined he saw a ripple moving through the cornfield and fired four more shots at it, then stopped, crouched, an...
THE EXCHANGE KEPT LUCAS warm all the way out to the car. He’d jump off a high building before he betrayed Weather, but a little extracurricular flirtation kept the blood circulating; not that all of i...
MARLYS WAS A WOMAN of ordinary appearance, if seen in a supermarket or a library, dressed in homemade or Walmart dresses or slacks, a little too heavy, but fighting it, white-haired, ruddy-faced. In h...