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Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.”
You worried I don’t have the onions for it since that with Lecter?”
I don’t like walking around in a Kevlar vest with my butt puckered up.
You’ve decided to play ball with Freddy Lounds, haven’t you? You and little Freddy have cut a deal.”
“You talk to Lounds. I don’t have to do that.” “He needs to interview you, Will,” Crawford said gently. “He has to take your picture.”
he answered Lounds’s questions in a civil tone.
listened like karate students at an anatomy lecture.
the Tooth Fairy obviously was not as intelligent as Hannibal Lecter.
Graham even consented to have his picture taken with Lounds interviewing him. They did it in front of the vast gun racks in Firearms and Toolmarks. Lounds held a nine-millimeter automatic
Graham put a comradely hand on Lounds’s shoulder
curiously jerky time. The minutes dragged and the hours flew.
telling it made him feel as greasy as old currency.
She could hold a moment by its stem.
Dr. Lecter had been right, of course, in saying that he was beautiful and it was thrilling to read. He was beautiful.
was a good organizer
There were polyps of honesty in Lounds; he had few illusions about the nature of his work.
Keep cool and think, he whispered. Cool and think.
Lounds had covered many murders committed in kitchens where things are handy. Police reporting can change forever your view of kitchens.
Graham were expecting him. Certainly he had been missed by now.
I have pressed my unique seal so much deeper in the earth, where it will last longer than your dust. Your life to mine is a slug track on stone.
“Lounds was a ballsy little guy, you have to give him that. Remembering the license number and spitting it out, the shape he was in.
Cunt put his hand on me in the picture like a fucking pet.’”
The Tooth Fairy kills the pet first,
Lecter watched from the shadowed corner of his cell. There was a curious grace about him, even in restraints.
the killer would come to see Graham grieve.