the price of admission. He didn't think it could ever get better than that. But then she'd gotten

The case of Cecily Chandler is a perfect example of how privileged people get over on the system," the young man said. "Harry Chandler had a famous defense attorney for a lawyer, a slick talker who...

object to that as well. The judge said

growled, And, yes, my heart will break

mother being taken from her deathbed, and

No, I love to break rules.

speak with the man in charge, he said, a smile spreading across his face. Billy popped his head inside. The mayor, Francis Delaney, was sitting upright against the bed, a sheet wrapped around

earthen berm that ran next to the nearest set of tracks.

The guy's got a CCI sheet so long it begins with 'Call me Ishmael.

It was like crawling into the asshole of Satan.

Most people will live their entire lives believing they know exactly who they are and what they're capable of. But that's only because most people will never have to find out for real.

It's decaf. Just terrible. A memory of real coffee

to tell about that for sure yet.

She braked at Washington, watched the

of, I said. There's more, Alex. Normally Joan was pretty matter-of-fact, even at the roughest scenes, but there was a tightness in her voice

and, thus, the strength of the fire. He's taking

prototypical "tough" New

Besides, information was like weaponry. Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.