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"Amazing how the prospect of money can change your future."

"He’d seen plenty of people who had one face for strangers, and a second for their families. Everyone had many roles to play."

“Wars will be with us as long as ignorant and greedy men try to impose their will on others.”

"The two cops still on their feet finally got clear truncheon shots at his skull. Everything went sideways. The room flashed bright, and then went dim."

"I hit the floor with all sorts of thoughts—Where was my pistol? Were the Padgitts assaulting the town? Were Trooper Durant and his boys after me?"

"Blame would spread as far as it would go. Like pouring a can of paint down a hill. Most of it would end up at the bottom, but it would stain everything it touched on the way down."

"I had my pistol in my briefcase. I’m sure they had theirs close by. A false move here or there and an old-fashioned gunfight would erupt."

"The bomb maker pressed the remote control to freeze the image and study the blond reporter’s face. Her expression—triumphant and vengeful—reminded him a little of his ex-wife, Carla."

"Poor kids knew that even small mistakes destroyed people, because they’d seen it happen. Lawyers and doctors and second chances were things rich people had, but help was never on the way for people like the ones they knew."

"Kinda hard to convince a jury you’re not guilty when you’re dressed like an inmate and wearing rubber shower shoes.”

"I think he rigged the elevators to explode."😮💥

"I look out the window again and walk to the door. I have my eye on the lock. I turn the lock. To make sure. Make sure the lock does click into place. Doesn’t get jammed. In an emergency, things like that happen. Locks don’t turn. Locks don’t click into place when you need them to."

"It’s hard to prove to someone you aren’t something they think you are. It’s a negative they have, and it’s hard to come back from a negative."

"It had been a long time since Stahl had been in a speeding bomb truck, but it could never be long enough."

"I hate to want anything. And wanting to be liked is the worst. Depending on another person to give, to be kind."

"‘Oh, poor dear Prime, you have everything entirely out of proportion.’" Holy sh*t yes!😣

"When you look like everyone around you, and know the language, it’s easy to fit right in, to feel comfortable to join."

"‘He’s acting as if he were a spy inside his own government!"😣

"His suspect was a federal law enforcement agent and military veteran who knew the inner workings of criminal interviews and had likely conducted a few himself."

"Politics is merely a process of replacing one problem with another."

"The task had been, in his eyes, clean and efficient. He drove the twenty-five miles south back to his home on Bur Oak Drive, showered, and slipped into bed with his sleeping wife."😣

"Deemer quickly had the sensation he was watching not an inquiry but a play – one of Beerbohm Tree’s productions, perhaps – in which every character had been given their lines and had learned their parts."

"JUAN DAVID ORTIZ REPORTED TO THE BORDER PATROL TRAINING academy in New Mexico on August 27, 2009, at the tail end of the agency’s massive post-9/11 hiring spree. He entered a world where misogyny was rampant, agents often went unpunished for misdeeds, and secrets, no matter how dark and damning, tended to remain concealed."

"Detectives were also challenged by trying to glean information from people who were often noticeably high. When they were stoned, they were nonsensical. When they sobered up, they often refused to talk."

"You know, I’d pictured more yelling, more profanity, more threats. At least two or three references to how our bodies could be dumped in the Cuyahoga. Instead he acted like we were discussing stock quotes.”

"I went down on one knee and sighted the gun on the door as it swung open. The first thing I saw was not a person but the barrel of another gun, and then the room erupted into a clatter of automatic gunfire."

“Part of my child brain hated her because she wasn’t young enough or even beautiful enough. Because she wasn’t strong enough. Or because she was too strong. Because she was so complex where my father was not. I hated my mother, in short, for being a woman.”

"Wayne told me he’d been shooting video surveillance—using cameras that had been illegally installed, of course—and he’d videotaped a murder.”

"He never talked about her. Just as Vic rarely talked about his wife. The wives of cheaters lived in private rooms with white lotions in thick jars and soft lighting."

"Sometimes you just feel it. Call it a hunch, a gut reaction, intuition, an instinct—sometimes you can feel the truth in a way that’s hard to explain, a deep, subconscious tug that tells you when something doesn’t feel right."