Jon found the phone and took it outside. This particular phone, the phone Jon used for business, scrambled its signal into garbage only a phone with a similar chip could unscramble. Deep
Joe Pike watched his friend Elvis Cole leave the Burger King parking lot, then entered the longitude and latitude into his GPS. Pike was not using a civilian GPS. He used a military handheld known as...
I’m required to read this admonition. Your silence can be deemed as insubordination and lead to administrative discipline, which could result in your discharge or removal from office. You understand w...
Is Dolan there? What’s it to you? I want to talk to her. Haven’t seen her. You wanna know what I heard Krantz say? I’m not going to like this, am I? Krantz says you were probably in on it with that ba...
I left them to their lives and walked out into the sun. You want to do the right thing, but sometimes there is no right thing to be done.
I know why you didn’t get the money. I was wondering how much sixteen million dollars weighs. I can tell you exactly. Bank gets hit, they tell us how many of each denomination was lost. Tally that up,...
I gave it to him from the beginning. I had told it so many times to so many cops I thought about making mimeographed copies and handing them out. When I told the part about Nobu Ishida, Jack Ellis sai...
I don’t get the new shoe business. You walk around, step on stuff, the heel gets nicked, the sole picks up dings and cuts. A pattern develops, right? It’s called a Schallamach pattern. And since no tw...
He pursed his lips as if wrestling with how much he wanted to say, then finally told me. Have you seen news accounts of the mass graves found south of the border? I nodded. Mass graves containing scor...
He nodded, approving. When he nodded, the two lesser attorneys nodded, too. No one had bothered to introduce them, but they didn’t seem to mind.
Ellis said, Look, Mr. Warren signs the checks, right? He says jump, I say which side of my ass you want me to land on?
Do you know what she’s selling? She offered al-Qaeda her expertise, and a quantity of material. I don’t know how much. Two hundred kilograms of a plastic explosive. These particular explosives are not...
Deep purple moved through the blue as Pike left. Pike was creepy good at this stuff, but Pike had taken a serious risk by entering Jon’s home. A cocked-and-locked Kimber .45 was only inches away, not...
Daniel reloaded, tucked away his gun, then took out the satellite phone. The cell stations were out all over the city, but the sat phone worked great. He checked the time, hit the speed dial, then wai...
Cole sensed Pike didn’t want to talk in front of the girl, so he gave her the smile again. Why don’t you use the shower while I make something to eat? Larkin glanced back at him, and Cole read a new v...
Chen turned back to the box and examined the picture through the glass. White smudges were appearing on the front and back surfaces of the photograph, but he still had a long way to go. Fingerprints w...
Another man came in behind Jonathan. He was a little shorter than me, but his arms were as long as backhoe shovels and his shoulders so wide they looked like they had been built of steel frame girders...
Voice grew, and the fierce expression became outraged. He grabbed my shoulder again, and all the grabbing was making me uncomfortable. The tyranny of evil men cannot be hidden from the light of truth!...
Videographer stopped taping and looked me up and down as if he found me lacking but wasn’t quite sure how. Then it hit him. Don’t you have a gun? He glanced around the office as if there might be one...
People worked us across the plaza and down to the parking structure. I moved with the crush of bodies the way a leaf is carried by the wind, a part of an unseen world, yet not.