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Model 40
reticles
H&Ks
The great aviation writer Ernest K. Gann wrote that fate was a hunter. Percey’d always thought he meant nature
“They oughta make body armor for the soul, Amie. They oughta do that.”
It’s the process of tracing a piece of evidence back to a single source, to the exclusion of all other sources.
7.62-millimeter Beretta.
It was probably old; it showed breach spread.
And the Dancer had apparently loaded them with his knuckles to avoid prints. An old trick.
bifurcations
“Apparently the Dancer didn’t bother to tell him that the victim was his stepfather.”
sociopath—all professional killers were—and
He looked at the type on the computer screen. The letters were backwards. A mirror! He was sighting on a mirror. It was another trap!
A fool can throw a stone into a pond that a dozen wise men can’t recover.
slapped the lens.
He tickled the heart of one marshal with a stab in the back and then, swish, swish, sliced apart the throat of the second guard. Lying
In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
“You deposited the money in the Bahamas. You’d gotten Stephen Kall’s name from somewhere—I don’t know where exactly, probably a mercenary network”—the Dancer nodded—“and you hired him as a subcontractor. Anonymously, maybe by E-mail, maybe fax, using references he’d trust. You’d never meet him face-to-face, of course. And I assume you tried him out?”
