Judy murmured in his ear.Doug Berry reared up on his elbows, rested his wrist on Judy’s nose, and looked at his waterproof, shockproof, glow–in–the–dark watch/compass/calendar. “Five to three,” he said.“Oh!” she cried, suddenly moving beneath him on the life jackets spread on the bottom of his Bo...
To have his own conviction of the impregnability of the C&I International vault confirmed by Judson Blint — out of the mouths of babes, as it were — merely put the rat poison on the cake. It was all over, in the immortal words of Charles Willeford, except the paperwork.The others around the t...
The first was midmorning, when Kelp’s cell vibrated against his leg, and the caller turned out to be Stan Murch, who, based on the balalaika music in the background, was calling from a cab: “I seen our friend.”“Uh huh.”“About the swap.”“Gotcha.”“Says he can.”“Good.”“Day after tomorrow.”“Not today...
The Coliseum faces the park and the Maine Monument and the statue of Columbus and Huntington Hartford’s Gallery of Modern Art.On the 60th Street side, midway along the beige brick wall, there is an entrance surmounted by a large chrome number 20, and 20 West 60th Street is the address of the Coli...
Some beige box with the lights on and faint voices talking. He lifted his head, and saw an unfamiliar room, with a TV on, all the lights on, himself sprawled on his back atop a king–size bed with its thick tan bedspread still on it, and May slumped asleep in a chair off to his left, one of her ma...