The Rule of Threes (Special Agent Constant Marlowe)

by Jeffery Deaver

Members of extremist political groups, even those inclined to commit deadly hate crimes, tend not to profile for homicidal sexual assault.

Oh, retail loyalty. An idea that had never occurred to Constant Marlowe.

Everything about her told him she was in charge: her eyes, her posture, the words she spoke—silent to him, but unmistakable in their meaning as revealed by the reactions of the other officers she was talking to.

Glen walked to the door of the smaller bedroom, the first on the right up the hall. He knocked and gave it five seconds—it would be at least twenty in the case of his daughter—and opened it.

And her parents would not have to be present; they confirmed she was over eighteen.

don’t know him real good, but I hear he’s kind of Mr. Rogers. Mr. Let’s Settle This Nice and Peaceful. You know what happens when people like that decide to fight back?” “They go overboard.”

Let’s catch them first and figure it out later.”

But our A to C ratio’s the envy of west central Illinois.” The number of arrests that end up in convictions.

She had a necklace her mother gave her. It was engraved with three words in Latin: Citius, Altius, Fortius. It means

‘Faster, Higher, Stronger.’ It’s the Olympic motto.

She called it the Rule ...

It was easy to administer drugs involuntarily. You dissolved them in the liquor, poured it into the mouth of a person on their back and pinched the nose. To breathe, they had

to swallow.

Myths are only fiction until you bring them to life.