The Rule of Threes (Special Agent Constant Marlowe)

by Jeffery Deaver

Pythagoras, the ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher, developed that famous law: the hypotenuse—the long side—of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the square of the other two sides.

Actually, the square of the hypotenuse Is equal to the sum of the other two sides!

Clark Valley was the seat of Bowman County, and there was some irony in the names. Joseph Bowman was a junior officer to the bigwig, General Clark, who only got a town named after him—and a fairly modest one, at that.

Noteworthy trivia!

he fell like a lumberjack’s trophy.

Decent simile.

They walked up a few steps onto a porch. Inside she was greeted with the smell of cooking, a roast maybe. Meat, some onion, garlic. Other herbs.

Incomplete sentences mostly work.

Glen and Liz, better than anybody, should have known that.

Self-contradictory sentence!

He glanced in the rearview mirror and saw a woman, in sunglasses and baseball cap. She’d apparently gotten out to see what was happening and was now climbing back into her sedan, an old one and an odd color, orange.

After attaching the tracking device to Jason's car.