Quotes from Jeffery Deaver

She jotted this down in her ubiquitous notebook.

Never kill an animal but for three reasons: for food or hide, for defense, for mercy.

Remember that this is a game of defense as well as offense and be prepared to protect the areas which you occupy. —FROM THE INSTRUCTIONS TO THE BOARD GAME RISK

from a shoe print

Knuckle time" referred to those moments when you have to go up against your worst fears.

But game theory only works when the rules are clearly set out ahead of time. In the Nash bargaining game here, neither of the players was aware of another rule presently at work: that what they were bargaining over—me—might be a player in the game too. As

Bari, that freewheeling gem on Italy's Adriatic coast.

Someone once asked him why he didn't just use a tape recorder or at least type answers into a computer or tablet. His response: Speaking or typing creates just a glancing relationship with the words. Only when you write by hand do you truly possess them.

the Matt Scudder novels (dark), including Eight Million Ways to Die, The Devil Knows You're Dead, and the Edgar-winning A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, and the Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries (humorous), including The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart, and The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams.

Mom wants me to be an engineer and scientist.

the Nero Award, and he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Readers Award for Best Short Story of the Year and a winner of the British Thumping Good Read Award.

the man had stabbed his wife, Rostov's mother (though only in the face and only with a screwdriver, so hardly a problem).

Sophie did something Shaw had never seen a cyclist do. While still in motion she swung her left leg over the frame, leaving her right foot on the pedal. She glided forward, standing on that foot, perfectly balanced. Just before stopping, she hopped off. A choreographed dismount.

Maree may have noted that I said "wife" and not "ex," which imparted some information to her. She was smarter than the package suggested. She frowned her sympathy, which I didn't respond to.

modest mansion

nemesis is American citizens who've gone overseas

Organized crime needed to wake up to the twenty-first century.

Solitude Creek, a Kathryn Dance thriller

of your bed as you slept. Sachs had brought Braden Alexander's clothing too. Cooper

The young woman shrugged, walked to her computer, picked it up. She flopped down on the couch and scanned through it. This was something else I'd noticed that my principals had done more and more recently, in the safe house and halfway motels: withdrawn into their cyberwombs. Joanne

Who on earth had that perfect physical and mental incarnation that piloted them about flawlessly every minute of every day? Disabled is a continuum. We each have a spot on that vast bandwidth. It's what we do with our unique frequency that counts.

And him?" I looked toward the revived guard. Freddy said, "Wants a lawyer like a baby wants a bottle.

The office, high above downtown Manhattan, looked out over Jersey. The crap in the air made the sunset absolutely beautiful.

He guessed that in Washington two conversations often went on simultaneously: the one you meant and the one you said out loud.