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“Listen very carefully,” he said. “I don’t give a flying fxck what time it is. Get your goddamn boss on the line and tell him that the Devil’s Red Right Hand would like a word with him.” === JAKE RESTON’S GAZE traveled from the yellowed…
Hendricks’s business model was…unconventional. When someone was marked for death, Hendricks would make sure that person’s would-be killer wound up in the ground instead—so long as the intended victim paid up, that is. === “Wait—you’re the…
Bureau’s Criminal Investigative Division, or CID. The CID fell under the Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch, or CCRSB, and was responsible for policing everything from violent crime to major thefts. The Counterterrorism…
He was solely responsible for executing Council orders and looking after Council interests worldwide. It was a position that commanded fear and respect. He had no formal title, because he had no need of one—but thanks to his predecessor,…
Sal had a head for figures. It used to come in handy when he had to calculate the vig back in his loan-shark days. === I never told her how inspiring her story was to me. I never told her how much it helped me realize my own teen angst…
… she was just some overzealous undergrad, bright-eyed and idealistic, who’d yet to learn that the broken people of the world rarely wanted to be fixed. === “You got anything to eat? Seems like I should replace some of the stuffing that I…
The choreography of the scene was quite formal by modern standards. Novak dropping flowers one by one into the water before she leaped took on a ritualistic air, and when Stewart emerged slowly from the water with Novak in his arms, it…
“I’m working on it.” “You mean you have no idea.” “I mean I’m working on it.” === “A COW is basically a cell-phone tower attached to a trailer that can be rolled into an area as needed. It’s meant to support the existing system when…
“Those memories might be not a burden, but a gift. It’s possible you carry them to remind yourself why you’ve chosen a different path.” “That’s a nice thought,” he said. “But if I could, I’d ditch ’em in a heartbeat.” Her face clouded. “I…
.... insert the spindle of an electric toothbrush into a lock and use its high-speed vibration like a computer hacker uses a brute-force attack. Instead of one rap of the mallet, one chance to turn the lock, the constant shaking knocks the…
I’m on a one-way ticket to the desert. === In the end, every monster he’d ever met was just a man, full of hopes and fears and weaknesses of mind and flesh. But that didn’t mean they weren’t also monsters. === “I have no loyalty to this…
“Damn right we did. The fact is, much as the white hats wanna pretend like organized crime is a scourge on society, we serve a fxcking purpose. Some places, the family—or gang, or whatever—is all a community’s got. We clean up…
“And here I thought we were your friends—but apparently you’d rather bite the hand that feeds you than free your homeland from oppression.” “You think we owe you loyalty?” Al-Nasr’s face showed disdain. “We owe you nothing. Allah will…