Quotes About Suspense

Robert Goldsborough

Beverley's nude body lay in plain view, her legs splayed, a nylon stocking and two handkerchiefs woven together and knotted around her neck. The cause of death wasn't strangulation though, she'd been stabbed 22 times.

The old man said, " The house is talking to us." "What's it saying?" David said. Jesse said, "It's hungry.

Something was in the air tonight, and whatever it might be, it was keeping sleep at bay.

You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information ....

You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information

particularly

Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive.

The movie teaches us how action is the enemy of suspense—how action releases tension instead of building it. Better to wait for a whole movie for something to happen (assuming we really care whether it happens) than to sit through a film where things we don't care about are happening constantly.

a yard and left, Dave," he said. O'Donnell was like a blind man. His eyes were tight on the two guys

Reacher killed the lights and squeezed back through the slit in the plastic. He crossed the empty

to Reacher's desk. It said Gunshot victim previously reported was LTC Caroline C. Crawford. DOA inside POV

Violent and visceral . . . A cut above . . . Reacher is as tough as he is resourceful. An exciting, edge-of-the-chair account. Compelling and relentlessly suspenseful." —The

It's like walking out of a movie. Being made to walk out of a movie that you're really enjoying. That's what worried me about it. I would never know how it turned out.

There was a knock at the door. Neagley herself, Reacher figured, right on cue, checking if Sinclair had killed him yet. Or Bishop, checking if he had killed Sinclair. He opened up, standing to one side, out of the line of fire. Long

He said, "Come back," a little louder. She straightened up. He got the impression she was about to puke. He didn't want that. Not all over his good clothes. But he licked her ear one more time

Then the lights seemed to dim as Chief of Detectives Griezman walked up to their table. Six-six and three hundred pounds. Billowing gray suit the size of a pup tent. The floor creaked. Griezman said, "I am very sorry to interrupt." Reacher

rooms a thousand times before. There was a raucous through-the-wall

saw Spivey.

Way to his left the backhoe rolled forward. The big slack tires gave and flexed. The three guys stood back-to, pressed up against the rear of the building. Rifles at port arms. Then the counterman rolled around the corner and inched along the end wall. He got to the next corner and took a cautious look. He raised his rifle.

for lunch?" Deveraux

4. Correr a ciegas (Running Blind)

7. El inductor

9. Un disparo