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  1. Michael Connelly _ The Fifth Witness

    play fair, Haller." "It's not a fair game. Did she tell you
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  2. Michael Connelly _ The Fifth Witness

    McReynolds emphatically shook his head. "No way. Legal's all over that deal. It's squeaky clean. Even the woman signed off. Trammel. I could make her a three-hundred-pound whore who likes black dick in the movie and she couldn't do a thing about it. That deal is perfect." "Yeah, well, what Legal's missed is the part about neither one of them having the rights to the story to sell you in the first place. Those rights happen to reside here with me. Trammel signed them over to me before Dahl came along and took second position. He thought he could move up one by stealing the original contracts out of my files. Only that's not going to work. I've got a witness to the theft and Dahl's fingerprints. He's going to go down on fraud and theft charges and your choice here is to decide whether you want to go down
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  3. Michael Connelly _ The Fifth Witness

    I have always had the suspicion that officers assigned to front desk duty were chosen by cunning supervisors because of their skills in obfuscation and disinformation."
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  4. Michael Connelly _ The Fifth Witness

    I felt sympathy for her but not too much. Idealism dies hard with everybody."
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  5. Michael Connelly _ The Fifth Witness

    met by an officer with the name CRIMMINS printed on his crisp uniform. He was a silver-haired veteran
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  6. Michael Connelly _ The Fifth Witness

    I put my hand down below the table to check my zipper. You have to stand before a jury only once with your fly open and it will never happen again
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  7. Michael Connelly _ The Fifth Witness

    There was still chicken on the bone but sometimes you just have to push the plate away.
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  8. Michael Connelly _ The Fifth Witness

    Don't go growing a conscience on me," I said. "I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.
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  9. Michael Connelly _ The Fifth Witness

    You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.
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  10. Michael Connelly _ The Fifth Witness

    McReynolds emphatically shook his head. "No way. Legal's all over that deal. It's squeaky clean. Even the woman signed off. Trammel. I could make her a three-hundred-pound whore who likes black dick in the movie and she couldn't do a thing about it. That deal is perfect." "Yeah, well, what Legal's missed is the part about neither one of them having the rights to the story to sell you in the first place. Those rights happen to reside here with me. Trammel signed them over to me before Dahl came along and took second position. He thought he could move up one by stealing the original contracts out of my files. Only that's not going to work. I've got a witness to the theft and Dahl's fingerprints. He's going to go down on fraud and theft charges and your choice here is to decide whether you want to go down"
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