Know. She took a breath, and suddenly I liked her smile a great deal. Maybe you are.
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.
The police could follow him without dogs or helicopters. As we banged down the stairs, I said, There’s a trail works south through the mountains to a subdivision above
The sort of baleful stare you get when life’s a mystery.
There was a quality of loneliness to her that comes when your only friend walks away and you don’t know why and there’s no one else and never will be. A left-behind look.
To the bullet clips the same way every
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...
A black Chevy coupe with acne corrosion passed in the opposite direction, and two aging black pickups.
A dog could see your heart in your eyes, Budress told him, and dogs were drawn to our hearts.
A fine layer of ash had blown into the carport, showing a single set of cat prints going from the side of the house to the cat hatch built into my door. People in Minnesota see things like this with s...
A light patter of rain began to fall, and Alexei put on the windshield wipers. We took the Alaskan Way Viaduct up past Elliot Bay into Ballard, then turned toward the water and bumped along an older p...
A taupe couch faced matching taupe chairs across a blocky coffee table. Matching end tables that were too large for the space bracketed the couch, and a generic mass-produced painting hung on the wall...
A woman I know gave me a build-it-yourself bird-feeder kit for Christmas, so I built it, and hung it from the eve of my roof high enough to keep the birds save from my cat. But the birds scratch the s...
Air dogs excelled at tracking scent in the air. Ground dogs like bloodhounds and beagles worked best tracking scent particles close to or on the ground. Scott
Amber was cooperative once she got on board, and Tyson was docile. We grabbed Tyson’s backpack and toiletries, and Amber stuffed a few clothes and toiletries into a tote bag. I watched what they packe...
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...
Are you pleased to hear her living? Is this what you wanted? Pike hesitated. Keeping his voice level was more difficult this time. He nodded to let Cole and Barkley know she was alive.
As Cole and Pike slipped out, Stone said, Want the M4? It’s ideal for urban assault. Cole frowned at Stone. You have an M4? Shit, yeah, man. Suppressed. Frangible bullets so you don’t kill a buncha pe...
As I tooled north back to Los Angeles I tried to keep an open mind. Just because someone looks like a liar and acts like a liar doesn’t mean that he is a liar. It doesn’t even mean he’s a liar when hi...
As the firing stopped, Pike saw an oversized white SUV on the far side of the parking lot, only this SUV wasn’t an ordinary police vehicle. The blue lettering and insignia on the side were difficult t...
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