I've been a huge Backstreet Boys fan my entire life, so this book really meant a lot to me when it came out. I was never a huge Nick fan, but I definitely have more respect for him after reading his story. I love how he's trying to help others out by his own personal experiences, and I love how h...
The place was so packed with Italian hoods it looked like a 1937 rally for Benito Mussolini. Usually, Tony's is a quiet little bar-restaurant that once was a hangout for has-been and would-be writers and is now a mecca for the current crop of Village bohemians and hippies ...
Then I began to get numb. My breathing slowed down markedly, and I felt perspiration dripping from my forehead and upper lip. I didn't even care that I'd been drugged, and the awful feeling of panic had disappeared. I could still remember everything they'd said to me, and I knew they were going t...
The staged mockeries on TV fool you. Those unguarded-against blows would break a man's jaw — but in real scraps they rarely land. TV fights are sucker-punch ballets. The old bareknuckle boys would go fifty rounds, fight for four hours, because you learn first to take care ...
Careful to avoid the still feral mouth the man from AXE found a soft pencil and brushed it lightly over the pad. It was a trick every kid knew. As he stroked in the soft graphite, words began to appear. Soon he could read most of what was on the pad. N3 pursed his lips in silent speculation.Sam S...
Valentina boomed. Her big hand gestured expressively at the wintry landscape of upper New York State. “I wish I had been in time to see your turning leaves, but even so, this is so very beautiful.” She turned toward him suddenly and her round face was solemn. “But you are not happy, Nicholas. You...
That was what Nick was thinking when the door opened and Kerner and the guard walked in. Sim Chan waited outside in the hall. The guard motioned with his rifle and Nick walked out, Kerner behind him. Sim Chan led the way. They entered the laboratory. Lotus was there. She m...
The rum and chocolate in the lumumba helped steady me somewhat, but I was still shaky when I inserted the key in my door and pushed inside. After snapping the lights on I heard a rustle on the other side of the suite, and then the connecting door burst open and Juana stood...
It started at breakfast when his wife brought up the subject of a holiday again. "You must have a proper holiday, you haven't had one in over a year. Weekends at Bayberry Hall simply don't count…" Bayberry Hall, his mother's estate in Yorkshire, didn't count for much with ...
"Can't, darling, I said in her ear. Her soft breasts were outside the sheet and I covered her up. She pulled the sheet down again without opening her eyes. "Still no go, doll," I chuckled. I brushed her body with my lips and left her grumbling. I'd checked out Wilhelmina, the 9mm Luger in the sho...
Nick shouted above the sound of his own speed.“About thirty seconds worth, at the rate you’re going,” Paula yelled back. “I don’t understand you at all. First you want to walk because it’s quieter and then you steal a car from some wretched dirt farmer with five banana trees and a mortgage on his...
He went toward the shining Buddha. Nick vented his rage the only way he could — he tugged at the handcuffs until he felt the skin break. Tonaka was whispering. "I am really sorry about this, Nick. It could not be helped. I forgot something important and had to go back to m...
In four hours, more or less, Don Carlos Italla would fire his flare gun from the top of Alto Arete and the war masterminded from the clouds would commence. The only hope of stopping that signal was through the cave and up through the chimney. Even if we had had a military escort up the regular tr...
Their clothes, so caked with dirt it was impossible to tell their original color, hung in tatters from bodies that were equally as filthy. Oddly enough, the majority of the men didn't seem to be undernourished. I couldn't be sure in the dim light. I walked to the center of...
Rock shards exploded high and to the right. So startled, so surprised, were the guerrillas that he got the lead man before he could duck back into cover. Silence descended again on the little valley. Nick studied the corpse. The man had fallen near the cliff entrance and l...
I got enough money for new clothes and shoes. The dip in the lake had just about ruined every bit of paper currency I'd had on me. After making do with some ready-to-wear stuff, I debated whether to drop in on Karl-boy for a friendly visit. It could serve a purpose. It would reveal how surprised ...
He squeezed through the small vent, hung for a moment, then dropped to his feet. The guard immediately grabbed his shoulder and shoved him into a swivel chair. Then the second guard, who had waylaid Carter on the roof, dropped into the car and took up a position by the back door. &nbs...
Here the Kardu ran broad and wide and shallow, the crystalline water rippling around huge smooth boulders. Squarely in the midst of the ford was a tiny island. A natural fortress with a solitary rock formation fringed by willows and tamarisk. Nick urged the tired horse into the stream and made fo...
"You've been in San Diego? Which of the torrid numbers in the little black book is there?" he asked in his most sardonic voice. "Therese. A lovely girl," I said. "And as sweet as a coral snake." "I must hear about her sometime. But for the time being, business. Have you ma...
Doors on it slammed. Nick's fantasies were interrupted. Frontal attack too! Damned efficient. He slipped his one remaining cigarette lighter-type grenade into his left hand and cradled Wilhelmina in his right. The flanking car dipped its headlights as it churned through a brook, bobbed up and was...