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  1. Robert Crais _ The Watchman

    COLE STOPPED by his office that morning to pick up the calling logs before heading on to stay with the girl. His friend at the phone company had faxed twenty-six pages of outgoing and incoming phone numbers, some of which were identified, but many of which were not. Cole would have to go through the numbers one by one, but the girl would probably help. Cole liked the girl. She was funny and smart and laughed at his jokes. All the major food groups. When he let himself in, she was stretched out on the couch, watching TV with the iPod plugged in her ears. Cole said, "How can you watch TV and listen to that at the same time?" She wiggled his iPod. "Did they stop making music in 1990?" You see? Funny. "I have to make a couple of calls, then I want you to help me with something." She sat up, interested. "What?" "Phone numbers. We have to build a phone tree tracing the calls to and from the phones Pike found. We'll trace the calls from phone to phone until we identify someone who can help us find Vahnich. Sound like fun?" "No." "It's like connect the dots. Even you can do it." She gave him the finger. Cole thought she was great.
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  2. Robert Crais _ The Watchman

    Chen was pleased. He had twelve separate and singular prints, each showing defined typica. Typica were the characteristic points by which fingerprints could be identified-the loops and swirls and bifurcations that make up a fingerprint.
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  3. Robert Crais _ The Watchman

    Chen turned back to the box and examined the picture through the glass. White smudges were appearing on the front and back surfaces of the photograph, but he still had a long way to go. Fingerprints were nothing but sweat. After the water evaporated, an organic residue was left. The fumes from the superglue reacted with the amino acids, glucose, and peptides in the organics to form a white goo, but growing the goo took time. John figured he still had another ten or fifteen minutes before the prints would be usable.
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  4. Robert Crais _ The Watchman

    Pike knew something was wrong. The tension in Cole's body was as obvious as a corpse hanging from the ceiling. Cole was pretending to be fine for the girl.
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  5. Robert Crais _ The Watchman

    Nothing smelled worse than the death of another human being. Not horses or cattle or rotten whales washed onto a beach. Human death was the smell of what hid in the future, waiting for you.
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  6. Robert Crais _ The Watchman

    Cole got out of his car first. He scanned the surrounding roofs and windows like a Secret Service agent clearing the way for the president, then meandered around his car to the passenger side. He hefted a long green duffel from behind the seat and slung it over his shoulder. Pike saw him wince. From the way the bag pulled, you could see it was heavy. Cole came back to the girl's side of the car.
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  7. Robert Crais _ The Watchman

    In the desert. How you looked at your father. Not looking to see him, but to see if he was paying attention. He was focused on Bud and his lawyer and me, so you would say something outrageous to get his attention. You needed to have him see you." She glanced out the window. "I don't care if he sees me or not." "Not now maybe, but once. You wouldn't need it so badly if you didn't care." She looked back at him, and now the line between her brows had softened. "And you can see all that by watching me?" "By seeing you. There's a difference." "And how is it you see so clearly?" Pike thought about whether or not he wanted to answer. Pike was a private man. He never talked about himself, and didn't care much for people who did, but he figured the girl had a right to ask. "My folks and I would be watching TV, my mom and dad and me, or we'd be eating, and something would set him off. My old man would knock the hell out of me. Or her. I learned to watch for the signs. How his shoulders bunched, the way his lips pressed together, how much booze he poured. Half an inch more in the glass, he was ready to go. Little things tell you. You see them, you're okay. You miss them, you go to the hospital. You learn to watch." She was silent, and when Pike glanced over, her face was sad.
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  8. Robert Crais _ The Watchman

    Pike said, "This is dim mak. That's Chinese. It means death touch." Dim mak was the dark side of acupuncture; in one, pressure points were used to heal, in the other, to damage.
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  9. Robert Crais _ The Watchman

    After a bit, she said, "Do you believe in angels?""No.""I do. That's why I go driving like this. I look for angels. They only come out at night.
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  10. Robert Crais _ The Watchman

    She gazed up at the buildings and imagined angels perched on the edge of the roofs; tall slender angels with drooping wings; standing in perfect silence, watching her without expectation as if in an eternal dream: We give you the city. No one is watching. Set yourself free.
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  11. Robert Crais _ The Watchman

    We're not so different." The girl burst out laughing. "Ohmigod! Oh my God-dude! Maybe you're high!" Pike put the car in gear, but kept his foot on the brake. Their sameness seemed obvious. "You want to be seen; me, I want to be invisible. It's all the same." The girl stared at him, then straightened herself the way he had straightened himself. She said, "An idealist.
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  12. Robert Crais _ The Watchman

    When Pike finally released the pressure, he knew the pain would burn on with the ferocity of ant poison, so he touched another spot, this one in the man's neck, which reduced the pain. The man sagged, and his face paled to the color of meat left in water.
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