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| a31dd4f | Some primal instinct tells the parent, or the person down on their luck, than if we let it go -- the child's hand, or our dignity -- all is lost, and we'll never get it back. That's why, if you even bother to look, you'll sometimes see a bag lady pushing a shopping cart down the street, wearing a nice dress underneath her torn and tattered coat. Or she'll have a pretty plastic flower pinned to her beat-up old hat. The flower and the dress r.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| e3d5df5 | It isn't easy to look inconspicuous doing a stakeout in an Aston Martin Vanquish, but it's easier in Monaco and Monte Carlo than just about anywhere else, and so far, no one seemed to give me a second thought. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 86f7a00 | I got him in the ankle," Kelly clarified. She added, "The gun was a gift from daddy. He says you never know who you'll run into and it's better to have protection." Jeff tried to look respectful at the mention of Kelly's father. In his head I knew he was thinking Kelly needed about as much protection as a barracuda." | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 8e1e451 | Halfway back to the Keys on Seven Mile Bridge, as day lost its eternal struggle against night, someone in Miami called in to the radio station I was listening to, and requested Gloria Estefan's Si Voy a Perderte. I turned it up and listened to the sad strains of Estefan's emotional pleading while I drove across the water in darkness. I could almost have sworn under oath that the caller's voice was that of Anna Marquez... | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 650afba | I was empty and lonely, unable to remember the last time I'd felt any real happiness, or if I ever had at all. I knew I had seen it a few times in the eyes of others, and in movies made a lifetime ago, back when love existed. Finding that old-fashioned kind of love would be a miracle, and I was not expecting a miracle to come my way... | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 3fa47c3 | His gun was still holstered, but so were theirs. He had surprise on his side, and the urgency of the riders, as he could see a second cloud of dust not far behind them. Lonesome knew these men. He might not have known them personally, but he knew the look of men who'd seen battle during the war. Many soldiers from both sides had been unable to stop killing after the war, and he judged these men to be among them. The man riding point was the.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 290301c | Travis placed his hand flat on against his chest. "I'm almost hurt by that remark. Surely you've told him what a great bunch of fellas we are, and what great cowhands we are?" "I haven't had the chance. Travis is right though," said the Southerner, turning toward Wyn. "They are top cowhands, it's only when they get around pretty girls their brains start to go all mushy." | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 291e3b6 | Arizona and Tucson, to Wyn's way of thinking, sort of embodied the changing nature of the country in recent years as it had grown. Traders and explorers such as Kit Carson, Pauline Weaver and Bill Williams had wandered through Arizona in the early part of the century. New Mexico, which had included all of Arizona north of the Gila, had been ceded to the United States in '48, at the bitter end of the Mexican War, with the treaty of Guadalupe.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 9c67a13 | I took my time driving back to the warehouse to drop off the van. It would be the loneliest ten blocks I'd ever walked once I did, because I'd met Nancy. It is one thing to be lonely and ache for someone to care for, someone to love in the abstract. It is quite another to know who that someone is and discover she is just out of reach. No love is as far away as one just beyond reach. I drove with an aching heart through the city as it sprung.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 02c3da5 | Where's Steve Wilson and Lorelei when you really need them?" said Beverly with a sigh. "I know!" replied Nancy. The two girls smiled at each other, easing the tension." | Bobby Underwood | ||
| e4638de | Probably just someone on their way into Tucson, like us. We'd better check it out, though." The Southerner pulled his Winchester 73 from its sheath and laid it across his waist in the saddle. He'd killed a few men when he'd had to. There was always the possibility that a brother, son, or friend would seek retribution, even though the fights had been fair, the gunplay defensive, their fate deserved. He'd also riled a few lazy, drunk, or dish.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| a9d9187 | Apache trick," nodded Fox. "Aw hell!" Jace remarked, "Accordin' to you, everything smart anybody does they learned from fightin' Apaches!" "We greatest fighters and trackers." | Bobby Underwood | ||
| c69a374 | There was something starkly different about him that separated him from other men, reflected even in his choice of horses. Every seasoned cowboy, and even some greenhorns, knew owning a white horse to be the quickest road to death. Easily seen from a great distance, it left a man vulnerable to ambush, as another could simply lie in wait along the trail with a rifle, and spot the rider from a long distance. It was considered suicide to take .. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 7e17b05 | He leaned in and pretended to examine every counter of my face, as though he were Lauren Bacall and I was Humphrey Bogart from Dark Passage. Then he pulled back and did a comical double-take like Cary Grant in My Favorite Wife. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| d71b3f9 | Doral used to be swampland, but now Carnival Cruise Lines and one of the major Miami papers makes it their home. Everyone who knows Florida well enough calls it Doralzula because so many Venezuelans live there. Rich Venezuelans, the beneficiaries of the old "re-distribute the wealth" scam of socialism, which fails repeatedly and consistently -- though this fact is rarely ever mentioned in the media -- around the globe. Once they had theirs,.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| b985616 | Her face, especially those lovely eyes, filled with amusement. She whispered, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 78968bc | Her face, especially those lovely eyes, filled with amusement. She whispered, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" I laughed and she couldn't help but join me. There was something restful and pure in her laughter, like a Christmas carol. "My grandfather used to work at a radio station where they broadcast The Shadow," I explained. "He'd take my dad when he was a kid. Dad even met Bill Johnstone once. Anyway, my dad named me aft.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| d7ddba0 | By firelight he read the book he had gotten on his one trip to New York. It was called The Moonstone, written by someone named Wilkie Collins. The pretty girl behind the counter had recommended it to the cowboy as an exciting story. Disappointed the first time he'd cracked it open, over time he had become interested in the characters and the story, finding something beautiful in the language used, which had thrown him harder than a bronc at.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| b68317d | We sat next to each other. The sound of the locomotive and the smell of the sea drifted in through the open window. It did not go unnoticed by either of us that we were alone and without recent memory. It created an intimacy that drew us close in our shared dilemma. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 82bbccf | I'd landed in Los Angeles after the war, and spent the past three years working as a private detective; mostly dodging trouble while trying to help this mug or that one get out of a jam of his own making. I wasn't against helping out the so-called fairer sex, but in the line I'd chosen, and in the town I'd picked, more often than not dames were the trouble. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| f177af0 | It's difficult to explain, but Henry and my aunts were cut from the same cloth. In some small way, having this time with Henry, before I became a woman always looking over her shoulder, was almost like saying goodbye to Aunt Betty and Aunt Gertie. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 67e07db | Fate had somehow conspired against me, giving me a life of its choosing rather than my own. No one would really miss me if I were gone. I would slowly fade into the memories of a few, then melt away into nothingness, just like the snowman below. Faint echoes of Christmas music from the ice rink making its way upward in the cold swirling wind added to my melancholy. I was alive but not really living, stuck in a life which only took and never.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| c95d696 | There was something different about Andy, though. He wasn't so much soft, as just sensitive. He felt things and dwelled on them and then he couldn't get the images out of his head. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| acc9e0b | Sonny had to get rid of her once he found out, of course, but by then he'd already begun to grow weary of her. She was one of those save-the-trees, stop-global-warming, Che-is-cool-and-so-is-Obama kind of nitwits liberal universities churn out like chocolate kisses at a Hershey plant nowadays. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 8df467c | Death, especially murder, was always an abstract when you had no connection with the victim, thought Karen. Now that there was a connection, however tenuous, the Strangler had suddenly become real, a haunting figure in the dark, waiting to choke the life out of a total stranger with a scarf. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 9aea34d | What a magnificent girl. She is spring, in all its glory." He shook his head. "I have seen and done so much, my friend, I wonder if I will ever experience spring again. Perhaps I am too far into autumn and only winter remains for me." | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 9db7ce6 | Nobody talks about the corrupt American police, though, do they? They only talk about the corrupt Columbian and Mexican law enforcement unable to stop it. There is plenty of corruption, sure, but that's not why it can't be stopped. We both know that. It can't be stopped because, like I said, no one has the guts to do what's necessary to stop it. It's Apocalypse Now. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| c0d5255 | We're certainly glad to have you aboard. You're the top man in your field. I can think of no better case to start you on than that of Laura Blake. If one didn't know that she was completely delusional, it would be easy to get caught up in her web. She appears completely rational | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 4ee262c | Jerry and I stood outside Woolworth listening to young, bundled-up Christmas carolers down the street. They were going from store to store sharing the spirit of the season. On top of the Woolworth Co. building, a lighted Christmas tree stood tall and beautiful. A light dusting of snow lined the sidewalks and busy streets as people rushed happily about doing their Christmas shopping. Jerry and I had only hours ago been married, so for us the.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 90d4254 | I could not imagine a divine hand was involved, but perhaps Frank Lassiter had done enough evil that I was just the instrument being used to give him a shove off this mortal coil -- because he wasn't shuffling off fast enough on his own. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| aadf47d | Lamont Chandler." Her face, especially those lovely eyes, filled with amusement. She whispered, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" I laughed and she couldn't help but join me. There was something restful and pure in her laughter, like a Christmas carol. "My grandfather used to work at a radio station where they broadcast The Shadow," I explained. "He'd take my dad when he was a kid. Dad even met Bill Johnstone once. Anyway, m.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 314649f | That's the way it is in Miami. There are good guys and bad guys and sometimes the twain do meet. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 5ef065a | They have public service announcements about cancer, heart disease, every malady imaginable. But no one ever warns you about the world's greatest killer -- Hope. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 3bf20a4 | For the lonely and unloved, there is no greater friend than the night, and the anonymity it offers. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| a1f0767 | And that's why I fell in love with you so quickly. Your heart was the one I'd always been looking for. It's almost instinctive, loving you. As though I was born to. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| bbdb29b | Tommy Dorsey's Opus One, had Moonlight Cocktails with Glenn Miller and his band, took a Sentimental Journey with Les Brown and Doris Day, and finally boarded a Slow Boat to China with Kay Kyser, Harry Rabbit and Gloria Wood. By the time a nostalgic two-hour-long segment replaying old radio shows like Suspense and Jack Benny, Dangerous Assignment and Rocky Jordan finished, I was feeling better. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 09db8ca | A man's nothing in this cockeyed world but his word, especially a guy like me, with no job and no prospects. I was a hitchhiker who'd thumbed his last ride. But I had to keep my word to Kathy, even if I had to fry for it. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 0e01dc3 | You see, here's my problem. You got a look. I saw that look on a lot of guys during the war. A lot of 'em had trouble after they came back. But they weren't killers, not this kind anyway. So, I'll listen, and then I'll tell you whether I'll do it or not. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| ae151a0 | I was an okay looking guy when I cleaned up, but I hadn't shaved in a couple of days, and my clothes were strictly bargain basement -- Salvation Army hand-me-downs. She was either the nicest girl in the entire world, or the loopiest | Bobby Underwood | ||
| b56c5cf | Having a gun nearby is something I'd got used to during the war, and I couldn't break the habit. I'd heard from a guy I'd served with who lived in Los Angeles now, that Audie Murphy slept with one under his pillow. I didn't have as many medals for my trouble as Audie had, but I slept with mine, too. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 7f00935 | It took a second to register, but even a schmuck like me sees a paper once in a while. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| cbedc92 | So you say. I gotta say, you've got a better imagination than most of the low-lifes who come through here. Too bad you didn't get to Hollywood and put some of it on paper. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 5260b67 | Oh, right, just stroll on down to the car lot, big as you please. What'll I say I'm doing? He knows I can't afford a car." Karen started laughing again as she answered. "You could tell him you've lost all your marbles and thought you saw one roll that way." | Bobby Underwood | ||
| d67f385 | I wasn't sure when you'd be in so I thought you wouldn't mind me waiting here." I had the feeling he knew exactly when I was going to arrive. That he knew a lot of things he wasn't ever going to tell me." -- | Bobby Underwood |