There was an early-morning Mass at six thirty, which gave Luis about an hour for his morning run. He considered heading east toward the USC campus and its many jogging paths around the stadium and Natural History Museum, but the area would already be packed with students. Instead, he crossed the ...
everyone is required to do ten hours of work for the camp each seven days,” she announced, trying to sound nonplussed as she held up clipboards with sign-up sheets attached. “These can be broken into one, two or three-hour shifts, so try to spread them over the week. If you want to try and do all...
The sound had become so repetitive that despite its initial menace, Sineada had blocked it out with the rest of the day’s background noise. The torrential rain, the banshee-like wind, and waves of floodwater breaking against the side of the house had simply incorporated the rhythmic beating of th...
But after Ryan showed them Bones’s collar and explained that he was a trained Pittsburgh police K-9 who now had more experience sniffing out and fighting against the flesh-eaters than any dogs they might have brought with them, the captain realized how valuable such an asset might be. ...
His father’s number appeared on the caller ID. As his father never called this early, he answered at once. “Dad? Everything okay?” “Turn on the radio,” Moises said quietly. “There was a break-in at St. Augustine’s Church last night. A priest got bea...
The boat, a converted cabin cruiser that wouldn’t attract much attention if discovered, was anchored just offshore in a marina surrounded by a number of sailboats. It had been painted white, but if someone knew what an LRAD looked like, they might be able to identify the large version mounted to ...
Sure, there’d been a string of bad luck in the buildings lately. But that was East Harlem. He’d worked night after night, week after week, month after month to get them out of there. He wasn’t stupid. He knew that it was probably too late for Trey and one day he’d get a call that he was dead or i...