But since I was coming down from thirty feet in the air, it wasn’t hard to see him or his wicked-looking weapons. Of course, I was brilliantly disguised as a teenager taking a superhuman leap over a bullet train, so it wasn’t too hard for him to see me either. His wicked-looking weapons were soon...
As we neared our destination, the guards, safely ensconced behind a secure door at the front of the bus, insisted on quiet. Bryah hadn’t spoken for some time. An unceasing tremor vibrated throughout her body. Otherwise, her glassy eyes just gazed forward. The bus rolled up to a set of large, orna...
The end of a long, insane, incredibly stressful week. Three people had died. My only good leads had come and gone. I needed to talk to somebody, so I went up to eight, where the D. A.’s staff was located. Two doors down from the big man himself was Jill’s corner office. &n...
They waited another half hour, until the traffic jam of limos and Jags and Mercs and vintage Porsches and other obnoxious automobiles rolled down, away from the house, before they stepped out of the Cruiser and into the darkness. It was only a four-person job this time. The driver, Vida, her most...
They’ll never come close to finding my sisters or me. Everywhere I go, even at this late hour, I see Londoners in shock and newspapers featuring a photo of the Jumbotron in the stadium and our message: Olympic Shame Exposed! And the headlines: Death Stalks the Games! Well, what did they think? Th...
Yuki watched along with the jury as the time-and date-stamped recording started with Keith Herman getting into the undercover cop’s car. Oh, man, Yuki thought. No way Kinsela could discredit this. The images were black-and-white, medium quality, shot from the window on the driver’s side. The angl...
The suspect’s eyes flicked around—to the kids, weeping in a corner; to the apartment door, propped closed with a chair because he had broken the latch when he kicked it in; to the window, where he seemed to expect the peering faces of would-be rescuers. Forget that it was five stories up, with no...