Perfect takeoff, his legs delivering just exactly the right amount of spring, his arms balanced level with his chest and slightly behind, fingers webbed together, hands slightly cupped, eyes wide open, grinning nemesis back on the ledge, helpless to hurt him anymore. For what seemed an eternity, ...
He called them later that morning and was told by the Forensic Toxicology Lab that it might be sometime next week before the actual autopsy would take place. Av asked why so long. The secretary asked if Av’s case was an active and urgent homicide investigation. Av said not yet, but that of course...
I did stars, and then we went to dawn GQ as usual. The doc checked on the skipper, who was still asleep. Doc suggested that we station a trusted petty officer outside his inport cabin in case we had to rouse him for his safety. I told him to get Chief Lamont to take care of that. We held morning ...
The flagship sent out a flashing-light signal: Proceed independently to Tulagi, refuel, report RFS when completed. That was plain enough, Sluff thought, and asked CIC for a course to Tulagi at twenty-five knots. J. B. King was down to just above 50 percent fuel, courtesy of that twenty-seven-knot...
She looked at her watch. It was just past eleven. “Harry, get in here,” she called. As she turned back toward the front door, she heard the sound of -a car going by out on Beach Mill Road. It seemed to slow as it went by her front gates, its headlights creating a strobe effect through the double ...
Rip yelled and pitched headfirst into the small stream. Tommy grunted, lurched sideways, and then he, too, slipped over the bank. Lynn, a few steps behind them, stopped in her tracks, her arms windmilling to recover her balance. The grass along the stream was high enough that she couldn’t see wha...
There was warm French bread, some Port Salut cheese, and a small brick of pate on offer. I asked if she cooked like this all the time. "There's a Whole Foods down the road in Hillsborough," she said. "If I did this every day I'd be two hundred pounds." "Well, obviously you don't," I said. "I've b...
The pale bark of the gray eucalyptus trees was daubed in orange from the glow of the new sodium-vapor lights along Balboa Park Drive. At least something around here had a glow on; he sure as hell did not. Maddy, his wife, spoke to him from the bed. “Brian, it’s all right. Brian, come back to bed....
We went down the street to get a sandwich, and then Price drove us east to New Hanover Regional Hospital, where the Wilmington city morgue was collocated. We checked in at the security desk and then began the inevitable wait. “Face up or TV?” Price asked. ...