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A cop shouted our location to the people on the road. Krantz wasn’t holding a gun, but his eyes were on Pike as if he were a down-range target. I expected him to start with our rights, or tell us we w...
They spent the next hour going over their plan and setting up their equipment. Stone loaded his software onto Carlos’s laptop, then fit locators on Pike and Cole, one in Cole’s hair, and the other on...
These dogs are not machines, Goddammit. They are alive! They are living, feeling, warm-blooded creatures of God, and they will love you with all their hearts! They will love you when your wives and hu...
The best dog training was based on the reward system. You did not punish a dog for doing wrong, you rewarded the dog for doing right. The dog did something you wanted, you reinforced the behavior with...
The attendant smiled a goodbye at the door. You look much better. I’ve achieved a measure of peace with my uncertainty.
The Los Angeles Police Department was surrounding their neighborhood like a gathering thunderstorm. A
THE CHOKE HOLD cut off blood to a man’s brain, putting him to sleep like a laptop when its battery is low. It was an effective way to subdue a person, though sometimes that person did not wake up. Pik...
Stone dropped farther back when the Explorer’s blinker came on. He had to be even more careful now in the confined residential streets. His eighty-thousand-dollar Rover stood out in the shabby area li...
Stone checked his watch. Tempus fugit. Gotta
Stalking the Angel[Joe]I could off anybody in this place five times over.[Elvis]Could you off someone and get away with you here? [Joe]Head shake. I'm too good even for me.
Some guys can charm the stitches off a baseball.
She told herself it was the dry night wind and lashing hair, the way her eyes filled when her lonely race finished, but it was always the same whether the air was dry or not, whether her hair was down...
She fingered the card and looked at the younger man. James Edward, did you offer the man a cool drink? James Edward said, You want a Scrapple?
She cleared her throat. My ex-husband, Richard. Ben’s father. She cleared her throat again. He came to see you? Yesterday. And you didn’t call me. It wasn’t a question. More a statement, more just wan...
Seven hundred fifty thousand dollars in cash didn’t take up much room. It could be packed in four shoe boxes, and fit in a single grocery bag. Walsh carried the money in a gym bag slung over her shoul...
Scott turned away with Maggie at his side. He felt like an idiot for believing he had discovered a glaring discrepancy when top-cop detectives like Orso and Cowly knew the case inside and out. Scott w...
Pike’s red Jeep was at the edge of the drive out by the gate. It was as far from the other vehicles as possible. Even Pike’s transportation is anti-social.
Pike’s mouth twitched, and Cole wondered if Larkin had noticed that Pike never laughed or smiled. As if the part of a man who could feel that free was dead in Pike, or buried so deep that only a twitc...
Pike put down the phone, pushed the magazine into the gun, then jacked the slide and set the safety. If Pike could ever know bliss, it filled him now, but he showed nothing. He had them. He had a line...