He was seated on the bed in the suite Buddy had rented at the Fort Worth Four Seasons Hotel, and was looking at the train line-up. The shower was on in the bathroom, and they could hear Stacy's splashing through the closed door. "You got anything cooking with her?" Buddy asked unexpectedly. "Give...
The same guy who lit up two of your Bamboo Dragons." Ray sat up and took his feet off the desk. "Nobody told me Wheeler found Angie Wong's body. He didn't say anything last night. 'Course he was going into shock." "And it wasn't in the computer," she said, stating the obvious. "All the more reaso...
After Chandler left for the drugstore, she sat in the front room of the wood-sided house on Lipton Road and tried to work on a seascape she was painting, but the pain from an extruded disc in her back, which sometimes kicked up after long runs, was killing her. She was getting ready for the Bosto...
The Rat leaned over and got his CD headset. He put the earphones on and hit Play. . . . Satan T. Bone's raspy voice filled his head with glorious hatred: Hit on the girl, screw her at last, Cut off her arms, plug up her ass. The screaming will end when the body goes soft. The fucking will start w...
Then he said, "Bolt says this guy is a mob pawn." A light rain started falling so he turned on the wipers and waited while Cole bit carefully on a sugar doughnut. "You wanna kick in anything or are you just gonna perform oral surgery on that doughnut?" "Okay, here's what I got so far. . . I think...