You think you're too plain to get a man?" She bit her lower lip and looked away from him. "You think nobody'll have you because you bite your lip and can't say more than two words at a time?" "Mr. Brennan--" "Listen, you're as much woman as any of them. A hell of a lot more than some, but you've ...
What're you packing?" "You'll pay to find that out," Raylan said. "Ice water in your veins, huh? You want a shot of Ji m Beam to go with it?" Boyd looked away from the table saying , "Ava, get Raylan--" and stopped. Ava had the shotgun pointed at him, stock under her arm, finger on the trigger. S...
the Bounty Hunters (1953) @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } Swag Fifty-two Pickup Mr.
That's why you're full of shit." The migrants grinned, some of them laughed out loud and there were words in Spanish, though the girl continued to stare at the attendant calmly, almos t w ithout expression. The attendant turned to a counter and came around with a wrench in his hand, hi s j aw set...
Announced director: George Armitage. Announced cast: Owen Wilson (Jack Ryan); Morgan Freeman (Walter Crewes); Sara Foster (Nancy Hayes); Gary Sinise (Ray Ritchie). . . . Out of Sight(1998). Director: Steven Soderbergh. Cast: George Clooney (John Michael "Jack" Foley); Jennifer Lopez (Karen Sisco)...
Clair River Drive that Wayne thought looked like a funeral parlor. It must have belonged to somebody important at one time, probably a guy in shipping or lumber. Nelson Davies had added on a first-floor lobby in front with glass doors. But this house had so many wings and angles as it was, added ...
The Hard Way. Trouble at Rindo's Station. No Man's Guns. The Rancher's Lady. Moment of Vengeance. The Nagual. * * Law of the Hunted Ones. Chapter One. Patman saw it first. The sudden flash of sun on metal; then, on the steepness of the hillside, it was a splinter of a gleam that hung unmoving ami...
AVOID DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF CHARACTERS 9. DON'T GO INTO GREAT DETAIL DESCRIBING PLACES AND THINGS 10. TRY TO LEAVE OUT THE PART THAT READERS TEND TO SKIP * * NEVER OPEN A BOOK WITH WEATHER If it's only to create atmosphere, and not a character's reaction to the weather, you don't want to go on...
She said if you didn 't go in the sun parlor it would be possible to live in this house through several generations and never change your attitude. She said you had to be careful living in New Orleans, in this climate, not to let moss grow on you; though it wasn 't just the humidity that might do...
De Both looked no more than twenty-one or -two, pink-cheeked, neat, every inch a West Point gentleman. But already, after only three months on the frontier, his face was beginning to lose that expression of anticipated adventure, the young officer's dream of winning fame and promotion in the fiel...
Elmore Leonard. * Chapter One. There was Antwan, living the life of a young coyote up in the Hollywood Hills, loving it, but careful to keep out of the way of humans. Humans were crazy. Some would feed you, e would shoot at you for no reason. Yell at coyotes, Go on back where you came from. But t...
in the Lord's. Eternal Light. He looked up at the repeated sounds of a car horn. Headlight beams crisscrossed the yard with dust hanging in the light shafts; there were voices now and the laughter of grown men out for a good time, the men from the cars yelling toward the ones coming across the pa...
Man, a real barmaid, showing her goodies in the blouse a s she bent over to pop the tops off some beers. But talking to the guy named Dave he found out Chris was Australian. The other barmaid, Lillian--w ho was also very friendly and knew everybody's name--was Israeli. The gutty little guy in the...
With about an eighty per cent chance of going free. But you have to break out and ruin any chance you ever had! Bowen stared at him. How do you know? We heard from Lyall Martz. Karla didn't tell me anything about a new trial! How was I to know She told you about the lawyer! That was talk. Talk! D...
Red Hell Hits Canyon Diablo. The Last Shot. Blood Money. Saint with a Six Gun. Man with the Iron Arm. The Longest Day of His Life. * Apache Medicine. Kleecan was three hours out of Cibicu, almost halfway to the Mescalero camp at Chevelon Creek, when he met the Apache. Ordinarily he welcomed compa...
The untouchable asshole, the ideal target." She was silent for several moments, thoughtful. "You know what? I'm doing the wrong story." Bryan watched her move to the closet now and come out with white pants that were like string-tied pajama bottoms and a T-shirt. "Where you going?" "Do some resea...
Still, sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898--right past the submerged wreckage of the U.S. battleship Maine--may not be the smartest thing the recently prison-sprung horse wrangler ever did. Neither is shooting one of the local Guardia, though the pompous peacock deserved it. Now Tyl...
He stood outside, away from the entrance and watched nurses coming out till almost five. No sign of Layla. He went up to the transplant floor and found out she was off today. He called Nichols. “You know it’s Saturday?” Raylan said. “It wasn’t, I wouldn’t be mowin the lawn.” “Layla’s off till Mon...
La Brava (1983) @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } LABRAVA WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL "Have I got a book for you. LaBrava is a mean-streets romance, laconic and bittersweet, so thoroughly a film noir in novel form that a twenty-five-year-old Hollywood film ...