The window didn't cast enough light through Savage's cell for him to see the water dripping, but he heard it. He glanced up at the small square of blue, split three times with steel bars, and saw that there wasn't a cloud in the sky. Probably a busted pipe somewhere, he thought, some faulty plumb...
He was using me to work out his new material, the green-friendly repackaging of Keith Conner, which would give him the edge on the red carpet, where it really mattered. But now playacting was over and it was time to get down to business. Sensing this, Keith held out his arms. "So what the hell ar...
. . and his fist reared back to strike above the loosely blubbering lower lip. The clock struck the hour, breaking Jade from his vision. It tolled gloomily, filling the house. Jade slid the photograph of Allander from under the music box and lifted it to his eyes. In the living room, the phone ra...
"I just had a great idea. Maybe we could send out a mailing to various cult members from my office -- phony flyers for a seized-car auction or something -- documented and sent first class." "I think that's a fine notion," Winston said. Bear grinned at Tannino. "Feel like being a complainant?" "He...
Seventeen years later, Nick has created a safe, quiet life for himself, but his tranquility is shattered when a SWAT team bursts into his apartment while he's asleep and takes him to a waiting helicopter. A terrorist has seized control of a nuclear reactor, and insists that the only one he'll tal...