Robert Crais Quotes

He said, Have you heard of two bank hitters named Marchenko and Parsons? Holman watched her stiffen and knew she was finally interested. Now she wasn’t just being nice or killing time until she could...

He said, Say location. No hello. No howzitgoin. All Pike all the time.

He took memory sticks and an external drive from his desk, and cables from the mess on the floor. Pike loaded his gear into the backpack, and we made our way toward the garage. Pike stopped when we re...

His face went sullen and his breathing grew loud. He had more of the Hamm’s. He had more of the Hamm’s again. My neck was hurting so bad I thought it would go into spasm.

I drove back to Belmont Pier, parked in front of a shop that sold whale-watching tickets, and used a pay phone there to call Lou Poitras. He said, Bubba, you really take advantage. Funny. Your wife sa...

I have to make a couple of calls, then I want you to help me with something. She sat up, interested. What? Phone numbers. We have to build a phone tree tracing the calls to and from the phones Pike fo...

I said, Luce? She looked at me. I opened my mouth but did not speak. My mouth felt dry and there was a kind of faraway ringing and my fingers and legs suddenly went cold. There are those times when in...

I said, Okay, Luke. Here’s my problem. I suspect that your mentor, Mr. Green, is suborning testimony. I think he may even be involved in murder, only I can’t figure out why a man in his position and o...

I said, Was it Amy? If it was, she was too smart for them, which is what drew their attention. Pike said, They couldn’t ID the source. Meaning what? Jon smirked. Meaning the crap on these boards is us...

I thought it might stand out because of the nature of the arrest. A vice sting? A Serbian sex ring. They worked for a Serb gang set. Ah. Okay, that sounds familiar. NoHo Vice took down thirteen or fou...

I was halfway up a wide curving staircase when Mimi Warren and her friend Kerri came around the corner and started down. Mimi’s nose was red and her hair looked like she hadn’t brushed it. When she sa...

It’s six. We’re closed. You need to leave, or I’ll call the police. Eddie said, Asshole fed. They were glaring at me when Eddie suddenly focused on something behind me, and his face sagged. Oh shit. I...

Jimmy smiled, wide and mindless, the way a pit bull smiles before he bites you. He said, How about that, Terry. You think we got something as pussy as the mafia down here?

Khat runner. Check out these teeth. Fuckers get green teeth from chewing the khat. Ain’t this green rotten? Stop

Levy introduced them to Mike Fowler’s widow and four sons, Mellon’s wife, and Ash’s parents. All of them seemed drained, and Holman thought Fowler’s wife was probably sedated. Everyone treated him pol...

Martin nodded, his head snapping up and down. He was wearing baggy gray sweatpants and no shirt. His torso was soft and undeveloped and covered with a thick growth of fine hair. He squinted against th...

Most dogs could hear four times better than a person, but Maggie’s enormous, upright ears evolved to detect quiet predators and distant prey. She could control each ear independently of the other. Eig...

My phone buzzed in my pocket, but I did not move. He did a slow three-sixty until his eyes settled on the taco stand. A middle-aged Latina was ordering food. The red-haired cop was forty yards away, b...

Nobu Ishida had lived in an older split-level house on a Leave-It-to-Beaver street in Cheviot Hills, a couple of miles south of the Twentieth Century-Fox lot. It was dark, just after nine when we roll...

Pike jogged back across Mulholland, and found Rose Platt squatting beside Rainey. He tried to understand what he felt about her, but he mostly felt nothing. Rose stood when she saw him, and Pike slowe...