The rain fell like dead bullets.
IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment building’s stairs. There was no threat here. He told himself that with every step. But every step held...
I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.
All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.(New York Blues)
Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.
He's prowling back and forth like a lion with distemper now. There's a shiny streak down one side of his face. I shouldn't have let her go ahead - I ought to be hung! Something's gone wrong. I can't s...
The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne
When a child disappears, the space she’d occupied is immediately filled with dozens of people. And these people—relatives, friends, police officers, reporters from both TV and print—create a lot of en...
She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby.
I'll remember you... I remember everyone I've lost.
A second red-orange spearhead leaps straight at O'Shaughnessy. The whole world seems to stand still. Then the gun behind it crashes, and there's a cataclysm of pain all over him, and a shock goes thro...
From Chapter 1:The main rub was the lack of RnR and I burned out. Three years and three stripes later, I ejected from the MP Corps, vowing I'd never do police or criminal investigative work again. Ins...
The dark clouds make the black sea. (Les nuages noirs - Font la mer noire)
The only thing he likes better than a nice juicy homicide is a sirloin steak smothered with onions.
Shouldering the duffel bag with the Marine Corps bulldog, Old Man knocked Jan's photo off the bed table. He turned to stone staring down at the photo. His face then splintered into hurt. Tears seeped...
Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn't Lasker. This guy-'She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him in three years. It probably would be too much to say that he feels the...
It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.
The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.
It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules o...
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