Quotes from Jeffery Deaver

Confused?" "Not really. To be confused you have to be paying attention.

In a moment the two men were on their bellies, hands bound behind them with Monadnock restraints. Other agents entered the house, searched it and then returned, calling, "Clear." Claire

didn't install them promptly then there's nothing we can do.

Well, to the matter at hand," Westerfield said. "I was pretty surprised the whole morass rose as high as it did." He caught that mixed metaphor, at least, and hesitated. Then: "A U.S. senator. Hm." His voice and attitude continued to be as irritating as I remembered from the last time we met. Well, every time we'd met. I

apologies to Staten Island.

Speculation about the past is inefficient. And therefore irrelevant to achieving your goal. So

hardly academically rigorous, revealed that English breakfast tea was misnamed in several ways. It came from India, Sri Lanka and Kenya, not England. It was imported to the British Isles by the Portuguese, who drank it in the afternoon. A Scotsman popularized its consumption at breakfast.

The blow to the head, the drugs, being trapped underground? Jasper Coyle knew exactly what was happening to him. He read the papers, he watched the news.

Loving was playing a Bayesian game now, one modeled on imperfect information.

If they're to be remotely detonated, the device is triggered by a cell phone—an untraceable burner, appropriately nicknamed. But a timed IED is

Natural selection applies to criminal activity, as well as to newts and simians.

If the rag Daily Herald outsold

Charlie Overby

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.