Ryan Tobin

“Hardwick was showing the frustration of a man trying to hold his groceries inside a ripped bag.”
― John Verdon, Think of a Number

“If being an asshole was all it took to get yourself killed, you and I would have been dead long ago.”
― Linwood Barclay, Too Close to Home

“Stanton clawed his way to the bedside table and managed to grab his knife. He jabbed it into Rhyme. Once, twice. But the only places he could reach were the criminalist's legs and arms. It's pain that incapacitates and pain was one thing to which Lincoln Rhyme was immune.”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“Sexual energy in general has tremendous power, the power to concentrate one's attention like nothing else, to become the sole reality, to warp judgement, to obliterate pain and the perception of risk. The power to make all other considerations irrelevant. There is no force on earth that comes close to it in its power to blind and drive the individual in its grip.”
― John Verdon, Shut Your Eyes Tight