The bodyguard and the driver took the old man’s arms and the four of them crept up the walk, moving at an old man’s pace. The front door opened almost at once, revealing a burly man in his middle fort...
The begging snapped into a sharp muffled shriek, just one, just the one terrible muted cry. Krista couldn’t move. She stared at the door as if it were a nightmare painting from Hieronymus Bosch’s pers...
Patrol dogs and Military Working Dogs were trained to protect their handlers. If the handler was attacked, and unconscious, or fighting for his or her life, the dog had to know what to do without bein...
People often die from love, and this is a secret we all keep, even from ourselves.
The beer came and I said, Joe, I’m thinking that there is something larger here than an attorney’s zealous defense of his client. The master of understatement.
Pike closed his eyes, and filled his lungs, then pushed with his diaphragm. He breathed deep again. Pranayamic breathing from the hatha yoga. Pike lost himself in a cool forest glade, dappled by sunli...
Pike closed the Jeep, and watched them. He was vaguely aware of the bodyguards, but they were as inconsequential as a passing thought. He focused on Darko. Darko had done these things, and now Pike ha...
Pike didn’t believe he would find anything, but he had to check, so he did, ignoring her. Pike had learned this with the Marines—the one time a man didn’t clean his rifle, that’s when it jammed; the o...
Sergeant Dominick Leland was tall, thin as barbed wire, and peered at the world through a permanent scowl. A rim of steel-colored fuzz circled his mocha pate, and two fingers were missing from his lef...
Stone touched the air with the tip of his chopstick as if he was dotting an i with a quill pen. Your talker there, he’s Sang Ki Park. He doesn’t run the gang. That would be his uncle, Young Min Park....
Stone held up something that looked like the GPS locator he removed from Pike’s Jeep. Remember this? Walsh reddened as Stone went on. It’s not yours. We canned the one you put on his Jeep. This one’s...
Still, people sometimes do strange things for strange reasons, and I decided to see what Mrs. Louise Earle had to offer. I expected that she would support her son’s claims, but in the doing perhaps sh...
Pike’s mouth twitched, and Cole wondered if Larkin had noticed that Pike never laughed or smiled. As if the part of a man who could feel that free was dead in Pike, or buried so deep that only a twitc...
Poitras came
Scott let Maggie out the rear, clipped her lead, and hurried to catch up as Sims and another Fugitive dick brought out Estelle Rolley. Rolley looked like a walking skeleton. Street officers called thi...
Southeast Asians almost never use chopsticks. If you go to Vietnam or Thailand or Cambodia, you never see a chopstick. Even in the boonies. They use forks and large spoons but when they come here and...
Something about the desk bothered me. I sat and touched the keyboard. The monitors didn’t respond. They powered up when I turned them on, but the screens showed only a bright blue field. I looked unde...
Some of us find our way with a single light to guide us; others lose themselves even when the star field is as sharp as a neon ceiling. Ethics may not be situational, but feelings are. We learn to adj...
Some guys can charm the stitches off a baseball.
She glanced at Pike again. He doesn’t look like a detective. Pike’s head moved, just enough to acknowledge he heard her. His shades were so dark, they looked like twin doors to nowhere. He considered...
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