Quotes from Jeffery Deaver

Anthony Boucher (1911–1968) was one of the most remarkable figures ever produced by the mystery genre. And

Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories (1997)

A few were journalists and one a novelist, who wanted to get it right. (Rhyme welcomed his presence; he himself was the subject of a series of novels based on cases he'd run and had written the author on several occasions about misrepresentations of real crime scene work. "Must you sensationalize?")

Foreign Narcotics Operations Task Force in Dallas. A.k.a. the Cartel Busters.

surging around the track, or through city traffic

horseshoe crabs

As I'd listened in on the conversation, I'd noted what seemed to be disappointment in Loving's voice. I wondered if that was due to his reluctance to cease playing this game with me personally. But that was perhaps projecting my feelings onto him. I

Because of her frenetic nature and dancing mind, she chatted up a storm with the subjects she interviewed, who ended up overwhelmed or intimidated. Or captivated.

Korea, right, you'd think it was tea, tea, tea. Like China and Japan. But the last emperor of Korea, his name was Sunjong, the nineteen twenties, he loved the West and always had coffee at the palace. He and his father would sit around drinking coffee and talking about world affairs. Word got around and the citizens began to drink coffee. They liked to do what their emperor does. There're more coffee drinkers in Korea than any other Asian country. They even

didn't seem to be the nickname sort. Beautiful people rarely were. 'Let's

I always carried in my breast or hip pocket a video camera disguised as a pen. It was linked to software whose algorithms alerted me that the body language of a person approaching was consistent with that of an impending attack. I also used it to record crowds in public when I was transporting principals, to see if faces of passersby in one locale turn up in another. A

Erle Stanley Gardner

He was likened favorably to Rudolph Giuliani; unlike the former mayor, however, Grady had no political aspirations.

was mildly surprised to see) and in the smallest

Playing chess or Go or Tigris and Euphrates—a very good game, by the way—I can watch people as they choose their strategy and note how they respond to something I've done. Even

He hated crowded, noisy restaurants and bars and on more than one occasion had walked out of upmarket establishments when the decibel level had proved to be too irritating.

he said that the head of the whole shebang, Averell Whittaker, is retiring and selling the company. I'm wondering if maybe a buyer hired the Locksmith then leaked the story to drive down the value of the company. Might be worth looking into.

He Who Hesitates (1965), Blood Relatives (1975), Long Time No See (1977) and The Big Bad City (1999).

When you write something by hand, slowly, you own the words. You type them, less so. You read them, even less. And you listen, hardly at all.

It was a tricky job.

Anna Katharine Green

And that cause, hating the evil government? Such bullshit. Did anyone in the militia fly on an airliner safely, thanks to the FAA? Did they drive on roads maintained by the feds and state and city? Did they take Social Security, Medicare or ADC checks? Did they call 911 if their house caught fire or they were in a car wreck? Did they sleep more soundly at night knowing the army defended them? Of course. They all did.

If you're going to get by in life, you're going to have to learn to give up the dead.

But, I added, duBois had found no evidence of any malfeasance. She'd spoken to dozens of officers and administrators within the department, armed with her pen and calculator. What Westerfield and Teasley had found, the money shifting from one account to another, seemed to duBois to be innocent.