Ryan Tobin

“He knew how isolated he could become and hardly notice it was happening. How relationships could slip away like smoke in the breeze. How easily he could sink into himself. How natural and benign his isolating obsessions could seem.”
― John Verdon, Let the Devil Sleep

“Whatever it was that had drawn him to police work, that had wed him to the job for so many years, it surely wasn't the appeal of a gun or the deceptively simple solution it offers.”
― John Verdon, Shut Your Eyes Tight

“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

“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