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Remembering: The trash can, blown open like a black rose. The smell of the explosive – the choking chemical scent, nothing at all like wood-fire smoke. The silky alligatoring on the charred wood. The seared bodies of his techs, drawn into the pugilistic attitude by the flames.
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Bledsoe
real name was like a rusty gym set in the backyard, something you were aware of but didn’t really see.
people cops (he himself being an evidence cop). Dellray trusted forensics as little as Rhyme trusted the testimony of witnesses.
‘By seven o’clock on Monday morning, either we’ll’ve nailed the Dancer, or both our witnesses’ll be dead. There’re no other options.’ Thom hesitated
Hour 1 of 45
Many bombers used low explosives – substances that burn quickly but don’t explode unless confined in, say, a pipe or box. Gunpowder was the most common of these. High explosives – like plastic or TNT
– detonate in their natural state and don’t need to be packed inside anything. They were expensive and hard to come by. The type and source of explosive could tell a lot about the bomber’s identity.
A shunt is a separate wire, that completes the connection if a battery or timer wire is cut in an attempt to render the bomb safe. All sophisticated bombs have shunting mechanisms.
‘He broke in the window and threw gravel inside, so he could stand on the floor and not leave footprints. It’s
If you want a doe, endanger the calf.
what’d you think he was going to do?’ ‘Well, I didn’t think, okay? I just reacted.’ ‘Jesus.’ ‘Hey, Officer,’ Hale said, ‘maybe you act a lot cooler under pressure than some of us. But we’re not used to getting shot at.’ ‘Then she should’ve stayed down. In the office. Where I told her to stay.’ There seemed to be a slight drawl in Percey’s voice when she continued. ‘I saw my aircraft endangered. I reacted. Maybe for you it’s like seeing your partner wounded.’ Hale said, ‘She just did what any pilot would’ve done.’ ‘Exactly,’ Rhyme announced. ‘That’s what I’m saying, Sachs. That’s the way the
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Like tbe interplay of thr characters & team
How cam you emulate
gravel wasn’t to prevent shoe prints. It was to fool us into thinking he broke in. But he was already inside the hangar and broke out. Interesting.’
‘A key,’ Sachs said. ‘You’re thinking somebody gave him a key to get into the hangar.’ ‘That’s exactly what I’m thinking. Let’s find out who owns or leases the hangar.’
Using AFIS – the automated fingerprint identification system that linked digitalized criminal, military, and civil service fingerprint databases around the country
medulla is a canal running through the middle of a strand of some types of hair. In humans, the medulla is either nonexistent or fragmented. A continuous medulla meant the hair was animal.
Bombers often believe that fingerprints are destroyed in the detonation and will shun gloves when working with the tinier components of the devices. But the blast itself will not necessarily destroy prints. Rhyme now ordered Cooper
His deadliest weapon is deception
ruing
these were automatic thoughts. He didn’t control them any more than he controlled his breathing or heartbeat or the speed of the blood coursing through his body. What his
Individuation
The Dancer smiled. Because of the damaged facial nerves and the bandages, his expression was grotesque. Tremors occasionally shook his body and his fingers
piqued
‘That’s the schematic . . . That’s the bare bones. But I think it tells the story.’
I’m not your proverbial worst nightmare because nightmares aren’t real and I am more real than anybody wants to admit.
‘Oh, for God’s sake,’ Rhyme spat out, laughing bitterly. ‘Don’t you see what he’s doing? Let me guess . . . you told him that you’d arrest me, right? And he’d agree to testify if you did.’ The pendulum swing of
