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...
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...
She was looking at me expectantly, so I nodded. Sure. If you can at least look smart, people will assume that you are smart.
She said, Oh, Studly. I could see her smile. The law is not about justice. You know that.
She opened her car door again, but still didn’t get in. Out in the street some rich kid’s Firebird with a Glaspak muffler blasted past, wrecking the calm. She said, You go to school, you work hard, yo...
She gave me the serious goldfish face, then went back to staring at her dress.
Scott James felt the third impact as the bullet punched through his vest on the lower right side of his chest. The pain was intense, and quickly grew worse as his abdominal cavity filled with pooling...
Pike was silent for a moment, then simply hung up. To expect more was to be disappointed. Everett’s
Pike stood again, and once more faced the crowd. I qualified as a scout/sniper and served in Force Recon, mostly on long-range reconnaissance teams, hunter/killer teams, and priority target missions....
Pike said, What were they saying? Couldn’t hear, but it’s an easy guess. The nephew here just lost two hundred thousand and a boatload of workers. They probably weren’t talking about a promotion. Thei...
Pike said, The hat? Still there, in front of the taco stand like you said. Mm. I’m thinking I’ll go in alone, while you keep an eye on the hat. What about the brothers? I’ll feel them out. They may no...
Pike pulled the hose from the side of the house, filled the bucket with sudsy water, then rinsed the car. He began at the nose, rubbing the car with his hand to slough away the dirt. The cat came out...
Pike had at least four minutes inside if the breach registered at a top private security firm. The duty monitor would run a system diagnostic to make sure the alarm hadn’t been triggered by a malfunct...
Pike got into the Lexus, but Larkin stepped inside the door so he couldn’t close it. Her face seemed as brittle as a ceramic mask, and Pike suddenly remembered how she had looked up in the desert when...
Pike glanced at Cole and Cole shrugged. I have everything I need from here to go forward. I can take her back. Larkin squinted at Cole, still tense with irritation. Was there something here I missed?...
Pike dug his thumb into the side of the man’s neck where the C3 nerve root emerged from the third vertebra, crushing the root into the bone. This caused the man’s shoulder and chest to go numb with a...
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...