Her face was focused and contained, as if she was concentrating on something more important than answering the door. She was slight, with dark eyes, a thin face, and prominent ears. She was wearing de...
For the longest time, Mimi Warren did not move, then she looked at me and said, I don’t feel anything. I said, Kid, you’ve had so much done to you that the part that feels went dead a long time ago. M...
Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.
A short man who himself had been an attorney before becoming a broadcast journalist shouted, Jonathan? Is it true that evidence found in the house exculpates Theodore Martin in the murder of his wife?...
A left-behind look.
Stepping into the apartment was like entering a furnace. Pike began sweating. They were in a cramped living room. As
Poitras came
Pike approached the man from behind. He shifted left or right just enough to stay in the man’s blind spot, moving so quickly that he was outside the office one moment and across the lot in the next, w...
Jonathan Green had a firm handshake, clear eyes, and a jawline not dissimilar to Dudley Do-Right’s. He was in his early sixties, with graying hair, a beach-club tan, and a voice that was rich and comf...
Jack met Kwan’s eyes, glanced away, then looked back. Jack nodded once, kind of like saying hi, but Kwan did not respond. His lean face was all planes and angles, and as warm as a granite mask. He als...
In the back seat, Khalil Haddad leaned forward. Haddad was a thin, dark Yemeni drug runner who had been hauling khat into Mexico before the cartels shut him down. Now, he worked for the Syrian like Or...
In fact, it wasn’t evidence at all, but I didn’t want to be a defeatist.
I said, What is this place? Old date farm. This building here is where they used to box up the shit and load it onto trucks. Rows
I said, Ben. Would you give your mother and me a moment alone, please? Ben giggled. You want me to amscray? Yes, Ben, I want you to amscray.
I nodded. I mean, God, I’m paid to advise other people, am I not? I nodded again. Getting a lot of nod practice tonight.
Holman studied the two cops. They were both in their thirties with solid builds and burnished faces as if they spent time outdoors. They were fit men and young, but neither had Holman’s heavy shoulder...
He left ICM last year to start his own talent agency and things just haven’t gone the way they should. He’s had to worry about the house payments and the cars and schools.
Detective Sergeant Lincoln Gibbs was a tall, thin African-American with mocha-colored skin, a profoundly receding hairline, and tortoiseshell spectacles. He looked like a college professor, which was...
Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things...
First and foremost I am a commercial writer, and I hope to entertain people. But having said that, I'm in love with the relationship between humans and dogs, and the more I learned about what our mili...