Quotes from James Patterson

the front door of our apartment

I'D BEEN A WITNESS dozens of times during my career, but this was the first time I'd had to defend myself. All my years of protecting the public, and now I had a bull's-eye on my back. I was raging inside, but I couldn't let it show

it was news to almost everyone else on the call.

Henry draws the sidearm from his CO belt and aims it at Henry.

Now I suddenly think that Sarkar, Tracy Anne, and I are most likely the only ones present who can tell exactly what has happened: Katra Kovac, nine months pregnant, has been slit open. Her baby has been taken. The procedure—it's a disgusting lie to confuse this butchery with the term C-section—has left the mother barely clinging to life. And the baby? Who in hell knows what has become of the baby, this baby who was literally ripped from its mother's womb.

going to nail this Hazmat

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment

Jorge was an up-and-comer in the cartel's newest ally, Mara Salvatrucha, the brutal Hispanic gang otherwise known as MS-13.

Podesta clicked on the folder containing the digital photos he'd taken of Candace Martin in a car with

He probably built up the blood collection over weeks.

Gilda gives me a funny, eyebrows-raised look. I don't know why.

every passing moment looking at the corpse, I became aware

identity? Maybe the man who had my family

We heard from two bozos who I didn't know

His sneakers smacked against tree trunks. Bark raked the skin on his hands and face raw. Branches caught at his feathers, and he felt some get yanked out, but he didn't even wince. It felt good, the pain. He wanted more.

interrogation and housing of potential threats

Maeve had been dead for almost a year now, and in all that time, I hadn't found any new ways to cope with it -- only new ways to miss her.

BRAINSTORMING! Every night after dinner—which is usually something like tuna noodle casserole made with cream-of-wallpaper soup—I escape to the privacy of my bedroom.

Holy Name had been such a big part of my life that sometimes I took the church and school for granted. Not only were my children going to school here, where we attended services every Sunday, but the church was also essentially harboring my grandfather and giving him a strong purpose late in life. The idea of Seamus living with us as a retired bar owner with no purpose in life was the stuff of nightmares.

Anyway, I guess I should have seen it coming. It's like every time things start to look okay in my crazy life, something always comes along to change it. It's like it just falls out of the sky.

Agents Leo Piccini and Martha McCarthy, was new to me. They must have had orders to step on it, because after Martha dropped my overnight and duffel into the trunk of the Crown Vic, Leo dropped the hammer.

Nos voeux de bonheur profonds et sincères. Beaucoup d'amour et une santé de fer. Un joyeux anniversaire!

May God bless the Crosses.

of AIM Sparrow and AIM Sidewinder missiles, nestled under the wings, hummed as they powered on