DDT stood for Dangerous Darrell Thomas. Thomas had given himself the name when he was riding with a motorcycle club and was interviewed for a public radio magazine. The magazine writer got it wrong, t...
D. Wayne Sharf slid across Winky Butterfield’s pasture like a greased weasel headed for a chicken house.
As Bowden worked the room, Jubek took Lucas around to all the other security people and told them to take a good look. If this guy tells you something, you listen, he told them. He gave Lucas his cell...
We ought to go up north. It’d be nice now, out on the lakes, said the taller one. It’s been too warm. Too many mosquitoes. The tall man laughed. ‘Bullshit, mosquitoes. We’re Indians, dickhead.
We need to know who it is, if he or she is there, Lucas said. That person’s life could be in danger from the same people who killed Tubbs . . . unless he or she did it. Then, that’d mean you’re workin...
The day after the assignation with Barstad, the low stacked-heels of Charlotte Neumann, an ordained Episcopalian priest, author of New Art Modalities: Woman/Sin, Sin/Woman, S/in/ister, which, the week...
The Times, whose editorial portentousness approached traumatic constipation, tried to suppress its glee under the bushel basket of feigned sadness that another civil servant had been caught in a sexua...
THEY WALKED UP TO the front door, rang the bell. Del scratched his neck and looked at the yellow bug light and said, I feel like a bug. You look like a bug. You fall down out there? About four times....
She had to think seriously about Carver and Dannon. Dannon was well under control—he’d been her security man for four years, and for all four years had hungered for her. Not just for sex. He was in lo...
Schiffer recoiled: Oh, Jesus Christ, Taryn, don’t give me a heart attack, she said, clutching at her chest. Remember: no sense of humor. How many times do I have to tell you that: No sense of humor. H...
Now Flowers was arguing the same thing back to him. If Dannon and Carver had killed Tubbs, Lucas wouldn’t find out about it except by accident. If justice were to be done, it would have to be extrajud...
Just about killed ourselves out there in the dark, Carver said. He’s gone. Put a few concrete blocks on top of him, just in case. In case of what? Taryn asked, fascinated in spite of herself. Well . ....
Haven’t seen so much screaming and yelling since I went to a goat-fuck out in South
Guy goes to the doc, and he says, ‘Doc, you gotta help me. I got this terrible headache. It feels like somebody is pounding a nail through my forehead. Like I got a big pair of pliers squeezing behind...
Cops and schoolteachers, Sloan said with satisfaction. A cop and schoolteacher bar. The teachers drink like fish. The cops hit on the schoolteachers. One big happy family.
And he still had those two big nuts in his pocket that he’d picked up from the Purdys’ barn workshop, the one with the green-and-yellow overspray on the floor, a green-and-yellow spray that didn’t mat...
Women are basically recreational areas, with several separate facilities available at any given time.
The regular campaign staff, including the regular campaign manager, had no idea that the shadow staff existed.
The nun said, I can forgive the language. I’m not sure I can forgive your making an obscene gesture at your mother. Ya gotta know her, Holland said. If you knew her, you’d give her the finger, too.
THE DAY WAS PERFECT: low eighties, bluebird sky, the slightest touch of a breeze. If the Minnesota August lasted all year, nobody would live anywhere else.