Mahmoud said in harsh, whispered Arabic. “It’s broken!” “No!” Kadir could not believe it. He stepped closer to Shalabi’s back door and, sure enough, the frame was splintered near the lock. They’d waited until three A.M., when the moon was sinking in the western sky, then cut a hole in a section o...
He said he was waiting for a fax that required an immediate response. Sheila played waitress. Why not? She’d asked for the meeting. She brought a tray from the caf: turkey club for Bill, vegetable lasagna for her. She was stiff from the accident and muscles she’d only seen in textbooks were killi...
for the time being. He lifted his head and blinked at Tony standing in the doorway. “What?”“Let’s go get some lunch.”Jack’s mouth tasted like stale beer. And then his brain grasped the words– “Lunch? What time is it?”“After two.”“Aw, hell.” He rolled to a sitting position and rubbed his face....
“Look at you,” Karla said as she finished braiding Joanna’s hair. Her little girl wore a light blue, long-sleeved cotton dress and pink sneakers. Joanna was a real girly girl who insisted on wearing a dress every day. She hated jeans and shorts. In a way this was good. When she was misbehaving, w...
A faded red-and-yellow banner flapped in the breeze. THE OZYMANDIAS PRATHER ODDITY EMPORIUM Jack checked out the sparse queue passing through the entrance: A varied crew running the gamut from middle-class folk who looked like they’d just come from church to Goth types in ...
11 Tomás stood to the side while the two relapsos dug a deep hole at the rear of the Royal Cloister. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella would be arriving in a week or two to spend the summer, and the cloister would be empty until then. The queen had wanted a patio on the no...
I’m scared to death something’s happened to Bill. And Jack.”“That’s not fear,” Glaeken said. “That’s concern. There’s an enormous difference. The fear that Rasalom thrives on is the dread, the panic, the terror, the fear for one’s self that paralyzes you, makes you hate and distrust everyone arou...