Women are basically recreational areas, with several separate facilities available at any given time.

stopped by the door

California is like a Nazi state with palm trees

Cops and schoolteachers," Sloan said with satisfaction. "A cop and schoolteacher bar. The teachers drink like fish. The cops hit on the schoolteachers. One big happy family.

Clay pulled Lucas along and as they were approaching the back door, he called, Madam Secretary . . . I need you to meet this guy. She stopped and turned and looked at Lucas and then Clay, did a quick...

The Times, whose editorial portentousness approached traumatic constipation, tried to suppress its glee under the bushel basket of feigned sadness that another civil servant had been caught in a...

Mount Pleasant was an older town, where no two houses, standing side by side, seemed to come out of the same architectural style, with nineteenth-century Victorians up against pastel-colored postwar...

He was conservative, especially on the abortion issue, and he was death on taxes; on the other hand, he had a Clintonesque attitude about women, and even a sense of humor about his own peccadilloes.

Did he ever ask you . . . or suggest to you . . . that he might want to pull some kind of dirty trick on Senator Smalls? Oh, no, he would never have done that, Fey said. I mean, he might have tried to...

LEONARD WAS A THICK, dark-haired man, Lucas's height but heavier, both in the arms and the gut. He was wearing a plaid shirt, jeans, and yellow work boots. The scars around his pale, suspicious eyes...

He went on like that for a while, and before he was done, Lucas had dismissed him as being ineffectually goofy, although his ideas about the killing were roughly the same as Lucas's own. Holly said he...

We need to know who it is, if he or she is there, Lucas said. That person's life could be in danger from the same people who killed Tubbs . . . unless he or she did it. Then, that'd mean you're...

You think we could get them around by the pool? Taryn asked. Well, we could, but why would we? Because it looks rich. The point is, if this hurts me, I'll be hurt with the more conservative voters out...

Schiffer recoiled: Oh, Jesus Christ, Taryn, don't give me a heart attack, she said, clutching at her chest. Remember: no sense of humor. How many times do I have to tell you that: No sense of humor....

She made a moue, then said, There's one exception. If he is, in fact, in love with Ms. Grant, he might take one for her . . . if she's involved. If he thinks Carver acted alone, he might also turn on...

Though wickedly aware of his surroundings, he didn't look around; looking around attracted the eye. People who saw him would ask themselves, "Why's that guy looking around like that?" He'd learned not...

Everyone should have a hippie painter anarchist in their lives. It's the guys in silvered aviators with guns that you've got to be wary of.

I don't know. He was hit hard. Bleeding out his mouth, bright red blood, so he probably took a hit to his lung. He was alive when they took him into the operating room . . . Lucas gave him the details...