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Pendergast had fallen into a most uncharacteristic emotional state. But as the days and weeks went on, and the voices that sounded in his head grew still one by one, a single voice remain --- a voice, he knew, that was at the heart of his…
She was Portuguese, it seemed, with antique notions of honor, vengeance, and loyalty, whose ancestors had been involved in Machiavellian intrigue for eight hundred years. === I would submit to you that the apparent lack of motive might in…
This theory that we’ve got some kind of crusading psycho out there, raining down judgement on the wicked, has really struck a chord. You know that, right? A lot of people in this town – important people – are getting nervous. And there are…
Look what’s happened to our city, the corrupt wealth pouring in from overseas, the fifty- and hundred-million-dollar apartments, the billionaires walling themselves off in their gilded palaces. New York City used to be a place where…
LFX would identify the widow of a vet who’s living in a nice house, fully paid off. They’d persuade her to take out a small reverse mortgage. No big deal, done all the time. But then LFX would force a default on the reverse mortgage for…
Chapter 40 – highly quotable on three-star Michelin restaurant workings === …like King Mithridates, who had taken increasing does of poison until he no longer susceptible to its effects, xxyyzz no longer cared a whit about his…
“Consider a man who had everything to live for,” he said, busying himself at the worktable,” nice home, beautiful wife, great career, happiness, success and prosperity – and then the bastard ripped all that away. So do I win first prize in…
On the other hand, as he scanned the floor he noted there were already tracks everywhere, crisscrossing this way and that, laid down by urban archaeologists and those people called “creepers” who made a hobby of exploring dangerous,…
Sui generis (Latin: in a class by itself.) === “Sic transit Gloria mund” === I’m afraid I’ve developed an unfortunate reputation at the Bureau as an agent whose perps end up dead… === The right supramarginal gyrus (the part of the brain…
“Vincent, it isn’t the content of one’s bank account that’s important, it’s the content of one’s character, to paraphrase a wise man. The divide between the wealthy and everyone else is a false dichotomy – and one that obscures the real…
The Evidence Gathering Team, all gowned up like surgeons, continued to work, crouching here and there, humped up and shuffling about like oversize white monkeys, … === ”Please come home.” For a long moment Constance remained silent,…