Hitting the first molecules of the upper atmosphere created friction that merely warmed the rod. The lower it fell, the more the heat built, until the entire length of the rod glowed red then yellow, and, finally, a brilliant white.
To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They’re out there, and they’re whispering.
Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you’ll never pull this one off.
I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you’ll never have them again.
She was a Privately funded spy ship owned by the corporation and headed by Juan Cabtillo. The Oregon was his brain child and his one true love.
To create something you want to sell, you first study and research the market, then you develop the product to the best of your ability.
When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.
My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.
Time is a thief. It steals our memory, our hopes, and our strength, leaving only the sense there’s never enough of it.
We’re not lost,” he said in a cheery tone. “We’re just locationally deficient and directionally challenged at the moment.
A grief-stricken man is driven to defy the gods.
Not to worry,” said Giordino with humorous detachment. “If the inscriptions prove ancient, they’re probably nothing but a book of ancient recipes.” “Recipes for what?” inquired Helm. “Goat,” said Giordino moodily. “A thousand and one ways to serve goat.
When power is up for grabs,” Pitt said, “the first casualty is often liberty.
Take away the clothes of the greatest living man, his father once told him, and you behold a very embarrassed, naked and defenseless animal.