Where did phobias come from? Sachs wondered. Some childhood trauma, some genetic imprinting.
Pulaski said, “Even psycho killers need to do home repairs. Probably it’s not related to the case.
Boys groped, boys dissed, boys put you down. But it was the girls who made you bleed.
The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography.
Another thing about the outbuilding. The designers completely soundproofed the place. The reason for this was so that the principals couldn’t hear threats or demands coming from the outside. The corollary was that neither could you hear screams from inside. Night.
You’re sure it was Loving?” “Yes. That’s exactly the kind of strategy he’d choose. There’s no doubt it was him.” I was aware of the corollary to that conclusion: Loving would know too – because of the escape strategy – that I was the opponent he was now playing against.
Cameras’re sporadic.
Okay,” Simpson said. “You got.
Ross Macdonald.
Our SUV and four other cars accelerated fast and skidded up over the grass on Professor Peter Yu’s property, tearing up the lawn and destroying shrubs. I’m told that this dramatic entrance, which you’d think was made up by TV-movie directors, is in fact the most efficient way to approach a suspect. It’s all about intimidation. We.
In a moment the two men were on their bellies, hands bound behind them with Monadnock restraints. Other agents entered the house, searched it and then returned, calling, “Clear.” Claire.
Speculation about the past is inefficient. And therefore irrelevant to achieving your goal. So.
Loving was playing a Bayesian game now, one modeled on imperfect information.
Natural selection applies to criminal activity, as well as to newts and simians.
Knuckle time” referred to those moments when you have to go up against your worst fears.
I want to say something,” I told her. “It’s important.” “Under these circumstances,” she said, with a dark grin, “one wouldn’t really expect unimportant, now, would one?
Playing chess or Go or Tigris and Euphrates – a very good game, by the way – I can watch people as they choose their strategy and note how they respond to something I’ve done. Even.
When you write something by hand, slowly, you own the words. You type them, less so. You read them, even less. And you listen, hardly at all.
Remember, people hassle you in all sorts of different ways. Don’t assume they’re right and you’re wrong just because they know something you don’t. The question is: Do you need to know it to do a better job? Then learn it. If not, it’s a distraction and to hell with it.
We tugged on door levers and jumped out, all our jackets fluttering in the wet breeze. I was limping – the toe still stung like crazy. DuBois and I moved in slowly, behind the eight armed tactical officers, who were sprinting into Yu’s open garage, brandishing weapons. “On the ground, FBI! FBI!” Screaming is standard operating procedure too. Intimidation, again. In.