HER WEALTHY STEPFATHER WAS DYING - BUT NOT QUICKLY ENOUGH What beautiful 18-year-old would want to spend her life taking care of an invalid? Not Shirley Angela. But that's the life she was trapped in - until she met Jack. Now Shirley and Jack have a plan to put the old man out of his misery and...
It was like relighting a fire that had guttered down some, refeeding it with fresh dry fuel, the way she looked at me and spoke to me between normal conversation. And Verne sitting there in the chair in the living room staring at the floor. Now and then he’d shake his head. “She had to go,” Verne...
Set in motion, he couldn’t be stopped short of annihilation, and plenty of men had tried that and failed. Schroeder snapped around as we entered the office. He wore a transparent plastic raincoat over a dark suit, no hat, his red-tinged hair fighting on top of his skull like very thin slivers of ...
I stood there and watched Frank come up from below. His flagrant hand-painted tie streamed over his shoulder. He held a fresh unlit cigar in one hand. “Is she all right?” he said. “I got Bantram. He’ll be right over.” Something inside me began to expand. Blood pulsed and pounded in the back of my...
he said, “if we stepped in and prevented this, we would stand to lose everything, monsieur. We would lose Gorssmann, surely. We would lose the one man who may mean more to Europe’s destiny than even Hitler thought he might mean. This is the very man you would like to meet, monsieur. It is the man...
She did not move; her lips were slightly parted, hair thickly curling along her cheeks, her body hunched under the coat. She looked down, sighed deeply, turned away, then stood there with her back turned. I held the beam of the flashlight on the floor and reflected light paled the room, the old f...
It was like a carnival grounds, the way it was lit up. The bright yellow porch light glared out across the soaking front lawn. A harness cop leaned against the door of a cruiser by the curb, talking and waving one arm. Two cops stood on the porch. As I watched from the shrubbery-shrouded alley ac...