Quotes About Intrigue

He doesn't wear gloves and won't bother to wipe down any surfaces prior to leaving, for he has no fingerprints. They were removed with the application of a series of lightly applied acids and CO2 laser treatments

house was of

In a nightstand drawer are a car key labeled with a license plate number

Like his more engaging story, mine suggests that the world is a more mysterious place than it seems to be most of the time

Most likely, she's witnessing not an escape, but a penetration.

Quinn Quicksilver

her jet-black hair and dark eyes and exquisite arrangement of features

This man on sixteen people's directories was named Alexander Gordius. To anyone lacking Woody's unique mind, the name would have looked like just another in a long list. But, to him, it seemed unlikely that someone would be named for both the creator of the Gordian knot and the man who solved it with a sword. To him it looked like a potential false identity.

That Thursday afternoon, August 26, Vince Nasco drove to Johnny The Wire Santini's place in San Clemente to pick up the past week's report, which was when he learned of the murder of Ted Hockney in Santa Barbara the previous evening. The condition of the corpse, especially the missing eyes, linked it to The Outsider. Johnny had also ascertained that the NSA had quietly assumed jurisdiction in the case, which convinced Vince it was related to the Banodyne fugitives

for whom arrest warrants were outstanding. He sought the name Nathan Palmer—and began to make a list of curious facts.

Just then he gets a text message from Ace of Diamonds with a destination. He

Charles Mainway

Hideyoshi's

don't mean to be macabre, but I realized I don't know how Tanner Walsh died.

If it's not a man that Zenon and Rice have come after, then what have they shot?

Dorian Purcell

He didn't see them, but he heard them pitter-pattering across the beams and flooring in the attic. The place had been empty for some months, and the rodents had taken up residence. They

Libby remembers too well what was on her father's laptop.

one of his slippers was found on his dock.

She steps into the hallway and rushes after the woman.

You're a scary woman, the way you know a man's mind.

bloodstream

She doesn't ask him about drones.

Prim and proper, a cat woman . . .Hmm, I was left to wonder. Possibly a librarian in her late forties or early fifties. In town for a special occasion? It certainly left me to ponder her story.