Over the years, he’d been bitten three times, and every dog that had ever crossed his path had looked at him as though it wanted not only to bite him but to tear out his throat. All dogs looked at him the way wise cops looked at him, the way attractive women with street smarts looked at him, the way mothers with tender young daughters looked at him: with suspicion, disgust, and contempt.
Patience, steadiness, and hope are healthier than anger;.
Two fine men died during the construction of this building.
Can I help you?” Katie asks as she and Libby approach him.
These days cream seldom rose in the intelligence community – but crap still floated.
Sister. Legis naturalis propugnator. What does it mean?
No helicopters are aloft. If boats ply the lake, they do so without running lights.
He turns to consider them with disapproval.
Ulrich proved to be about forty, maybe two inches short of six feet, lean and sinewy, with a high brow and a low, wide jaw like a scoop. He was as solemn as if he were an animated cadaver.
The penitent face of the religieuse collapsed into the greedy hookworm maw, as though it ate its own false countenance.
She’s not seen it a tenth this bright on any previous night.
Litigation is expensive. I could lose. I’m aware of that.
David wondered what kind of dark-minded people wanted items from the abattoir of a rapist-murderer and how Stuart Ulrich knew where to advertise to attract their attention.
This world is mysterious. Sometimes we perceive the mystery, and retreat in doubt, in fear. Sometimes we go with it.
Readers are not sheep. They are wolves, filled with curiosity, adventurous, always hungry for a tasty treat with at least a little substance to it.
His sense of smell alone brought him more information.
He was an accomplished computer hacker. During the past two years, he’d penetrated highly protected computer systems, in which he had planted rootkits that allowed him to swim through their networks without their security becoming aware that a secret fish explored the data depths.
Intuition is the highest form of knowledge.
Saffron “Sunny” Ketterling.
Those who murder children have killed their own souls and exist rather than live, and neither live nor exist in any world to come.