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Was it a fire in the kitchen? No, a bomb in the basement.
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from around
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Tazburg, Mise, Divine, South Ridge." He read the names off the" --
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An SJH, in ballistics shorthand. It was a brutally efficient piece of ordnance. Not exactly a dum-dum, named after Dum-Dum, India, where a British army officer had invented a bullet that mushroomed out on impact and acted as a miniature wrecking ball inside the body. Innovation wasn't always good for you. The .45 SJH had blown right through the front of Cassie Decker's skull and ended up lodged deep in her brain. It had been dug out of her ..
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close.
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Grand master of memory? What did she have to do?" "Three tasks. The first was to memorize one thousand random numbers in an hour. Next, she had to memorize the order of ten decks of cards in an hour. And lastly, memorize the order of one deck of cards in under two minutes."
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He slipped on the floor and this time his
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Tyler. The boy immediately broke out into
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time in the equation. They had a lot to lose.
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The car had been returned to the impoundment lot where Luther had "borrowed" it earlier that night. The plate would get them nowhere,"
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was already gone for good. "Hello, who is this?" Watson wasn't slurring his words."
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We had a clear signal out to the abandoned farmhouse and we've got two stealth choppers DAVID BALDACCI as backup in the vicinity." He tapped his tech on the shoulder. "Phillips, tell the air support commander to perform a ten-mile grid perimeter sweep. We need to all watch the feed and see if anything pops."
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WINDOW OPENED and the tied-together
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scene upstairs with
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fueled him with a stamina, a resolve before which many an obstacle had wilted.
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He had started to forget what it was like to hit one out of the park. After Sullivan
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there show
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this passage and escaped via the cafeteria or
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Having exhausted the possibilities based on his limited investigation so far, he got out of the car, walked down a wooden boardwalk, and reached the beach. It was nearly six-thirty, and the cafe where he was meeting Timmins was close by. He decided to walk along the sand both to relax a bit and to think some more while the waves pounded the shore.
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beyond that.
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She did not believe in a benign higher being. She could not. She had suffered too much to think of a heavenly force in the sky that would let such evil walk the earth without lifting a hand to stop it.
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looked over at John. He had pulled a dozen books off the shelf and looked to be trying to read them all at once.
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A number of the wrought-iron fences that encircled the courtyards and gardens of the homes were painted the color of gold on their European-inspired spikes and finials.
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occasionally
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To her, companionship must have seemed highly overrated.
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It was like Julie had said. You had to take life as it came. It gave no quarter, spared no feelings. Limited no pain. Put no ceiling on happiness.
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Google makes everybody a genius.
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It takes courage to speak your heart, when others do not want you to.
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DECKER
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her with him she was likely going to
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hers. He gave
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I've found that guys who inherit like that often have a chip on their shoulder. The man brags too much about how successful he is. Somebody who'd earned it probably wouldn't feel the need. You don't see Warren Buffett telling everybody how brilliant he is at business. His actions speak for him.
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You can't live your life trying to make people understand something they don't want to understand.
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Trying to recapture his youth. He should have known that nature bowed to no one, regardless of their monetary worth.
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I don't believe in ghosts or magic." "I don't either, Mary. But I do know one thing." "What's that?" "That this guy is not going to get away." --
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Dan Robie was someone who could change his opinion of you. Robie well knew that. And when the opinion was altered, the man was unlikely ever to revisit it.
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cantilevered
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For Tom the vision of Agnes Joe crammed inside the cockpit of a two-seater Cessna, her hammy fingers curled around the yoke, her enormous feet on the rudder pedals, wavered right on hallucinatory.
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There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for." -- J. R. R. Tolkien"
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Decker gazed over at him. "You can still marry again. Have kids, Ross." "I think raising kids is a younger man's game. I'm not far off the big five-oh."
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Indifference.
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That's what's called a 'valley fill.' What they fill it with the coal companies call 'overburden.' That's basically everything they tore off the land: trees, soil, and rock that the coal companies sweep away to get to the seams. They have to put it somewhere. And since West Virginia has a reclamation act, meaning the coal companies have to put the land back close to how they found it, the companies take the overburden, dump it in a valley, ..
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the overburden like that they've turned the geology upside down. Topsoil is on the bottom and rock that was on the bottom is now on top. Native plants and trees won't grow in it. So they introduce non-native plantings that are royally screwing up the ecosystem.
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