Status Updates From The Hot Spot

"Blackmailers are all the same. Every bite is always the last—until the next one.”

"She’s a psycho, I thought. She’s completely off her trolley. One minute she’s a blackmailer as cagey as Kruschev, and the next she wants to gambol half-naked on a pile of sawdust like a babe on an absinthe jag."

"Madox, you might as well face it. You stick out in this thing like a cootch dancer at a funeral.”

"Keeping the thought of her out of that bleak hotbox of a room was going to be like trying to dam a river with a tennis racket."