I understand. Does he have names? No. All he has is some basic descriptions. He said the candidate from the North saw you and a fellow he believed was related to you, and passed along the description....
GRAY-EYED COLE SAT in his bedroom window, looking out over the road, a scoped Ruger 10/22 in his hands. Squirrel rifle. Below him, a quilt hung on the wire clothesline, airing out. Before the end of t...
First she got Jesus, probably fifteen years ago, and that didn’t work out, so she tried Scientology, and that didn’t help, but it cost a lot of money, so she tried Buddhism and yoga, and those didn’t...
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.
Clay pulled Lucas along and as they were approaching the back door, he called, Madam Secretary . . . I need you to meet this guy. She stopped and turned and looked at Lucas and then Clay, did a quick...
As he ran, he thought about everything and anything, about the life he’d led, the children, the snatches of time frozen in his mind: a moment when he’d gotten shot in an alley, and the flash of the ma...
Argued that depression is a terrible word for the affliction. Should be called something like mindstorm. Still, Lucas’s intuition told him that mindstorms didn’t just show up: they needed something to...
You know, I believe every word you’ve said, but I don’t need this. I’ve got six officers working for me full-time, plus four reserve deputies and a dog, and the dog got his feet cut up on broken glass...
You gotta try harder to be kind, man. We’re all trapped on this earth together.
They gathered around the living room TV and the media woman plugged a thumb drive into the digital port and brought the advertisement up: Smalls was dressed in a gray pin-striped suit, bankerish, but...
The aisles of the Varied Industries building had grown too coagulated, so Marlys led the girl around the building, the girl’s legs churning to keep up. They came out directly behind the fire hydrant t...
So she made no secret about being gay?Why should she? the little old lady asked. Nobody would care but a bunch of stuffy old men.
SCHIFFER WAS LEAVING, Dannon asked Carver to do a serious look around the yard. One of the radar buzzers had been going off, Dannon said, and he hadn’t been able to isolate why. Probably another godda...
Okra is essentially a squid that grows in the ground instead of swimming in the ocean.
My problem with that is I don’t believe God cares what we do. Everything is equally relevant and irrelevant to God. A religion is nothing more than a political party organized around some guy’s moral...
Murdered? Somebody murdered him? Palmer was agog. A thin, soft man with a pitted nose and a bald, bumpy egg-shaped head dotted with dime-sized freckles, he was wearing jeans and a T-shirt that said, N...
LEONARD WAS A THICK, dark-haired man, Lucas’s height but heavier, both in the arms and the gut. He was wearing a plaid shirt, jeans, and yellow work boots. The scars around his pale, suspicious eyes a...
I’m pretty delicate, Lucas admitted. You know, when I’m not beating somebody senseless.
If the AG had been a lightbulb instead of a lawyer, he would have been about a twenty-watt.
I was skateboarding on the levee and lost my edges, she said. You were skateboarding? She turned and looked at him and shook her head in exasperation: No, you dummy, I fell. On the ice. On the sidewal...