Robert Crais Quotes

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 glanced over at her again. What’s your name? She took off her glasses and frowned at him as if he were retarded. What are you talking about? What’s your name? I don’t get it. Is this some kind of...

Pike didn’t like this business about guns. He studied her face, trying to read her. Her eyes were light brown, almost hazel, but not. A vertical line cut the skin between her eyebrows, matched by a sc...

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...

Mrs. Bartello opened the screen wider, her eyes bunching with sorrow. I’m sorry. You don’t know. I’m sorry. Donna passed away. Holman felt himself slow as if he had been drugged; as if his heart and b...

So ether or starter fluid wouldn’t confuse her? Budress smiled at Maggie, and offered his hand. She sniffed, then lay down at Scott’s feet. Not this nose. If I asked you to point out the orange tents,...

Daniel hoped they were right. The arrow dude might be some kinda bad-ass mercenary, but if he had a hard-on for the waitress, he was way past the money stage. Men stayed sharp when it came to money. M...

Pike didn’t believe he would find anything, but he had to check, so he did, ignoring her. Pike had learned this with the Marines—the one time a man didn’t clean his rifle, that’s when it jammed; the o...

The cat door clacked and the cat came in from the kitchen. When he saw Jillian he growled, deep and warlike. I said, Beat it.

Pike closed the Jeep, and watched them. He was vaguely aware of the bodyguards, but they were as inconsequential as a passing thought. He focused on Darko. Darko had done these things, and now Pike ha...

Pike knew how to remain calm during the chaos of combat. He had been trained for it, and had survived withering fire in overwhelming combat situations dozens of times. He had learned to keep his head...

If a future judge excluded the watchband, he or she might also exclude all downstream evidence derived from the band. The downstream evidence was called fruits of the poisonous tree, under the princip...

The birds scratch the seed out of the feeder, then fly down to the deck to eat the seed. They know there’s a cat, but still they go down to pick at the seed. When you think about it, people are often...

He reached from the ceiling with a rubber arm, Krista threw up her hands to ward him off, and Jack came out of nowhere. He flew over her and slammed into Medina like a mongrel dog. Jack’s impact knock...

Tyson looked miserable as we drove to The Carl, and neither of us said much. We each had our reasons, but our reasons were different.

That’s right. He was tied in with a boy down there about the time of the murders. Wasn’t enough money up here for him in hijacking; he wanted to bring in drugs, so he worked out something with a—lemme...

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...

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...

And eyes that moved back and forth as it tocked. Prospective clients

Pike moved along the side of the house, looking into each window he passed, and checking for signs of tampering. The first room appeared to be a guest bedroom, and the next was the kitchen. The bedroo...