Shock Wave Quotes

“Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.”
― John Sandford, Shock Wave

“The press conference was held in a courtroom at the new county courthouse, a space that did its best to translate justice into laminated wood.”
― John Sandford, Shock Wave

“Detective Virgil and Barlow [bomb-technician] arranged to meet at the Starbucks. Virgil got a grande hot chocolate, no-fat milk, no foam, no whipped cream, and Barlow got a venti latte with an extra shot. As they took a corner table, Virgil said, “Remind me not to stand next to you if you’re handling a bomb. That much caffeine, you gotta be shakin’ like a hundred-dollar belly dancer.”
“At least I’m not drinking like a little girl,” Barlow said.”
― John Sandford, Shock Wave

“Anyway, I gotta go violate somebody’s civil rights.”
― John Sandford, Shock Wave

“The shrinks talk about sex, and cops talk about drugs, and liberals talk about fundamentalist religion, and the right-wingers talk about creeping socialism, but what people think of, most of the time, is money.”
― John Sandford, Shock Wave

“there was an immensely satisfying crunch, at that perfect distance where your hand and knuckles don’t feel it too much, and your shoulder takes up some of the recoil, and the nose guy’s head rockets off your knuckles like a tennis ball flying off a racket.”
― John Sandford, Shock Wave

“Would you trust a bomb to a company called ‘Oops’?”
― John Sandford, Shock Wave

“You’d need a retarded jury not to convict.” “What’s your point?” Jenkins asked.”
― John Sandford, Shock Wave

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― John Sandford, Shock Wave

“Ever notice how dumb luck seems to follow smart people around?”
― John Sandford, Shock Wave

“gas”
― John Sandford, Shock Wave

“copy of an aerial photo from the engineering department.”
― John Sandford, Shock Wave

“HADEN WAS WEARING SWEATPANTS and a T-shirt, with flip-flops, his hair wet from a shower, and Virgil said, “I don’t want to hear about it. I’m so horny the light socket ain’t safe.”
― John Sandford, Shock Wave

“again,”
― John Sandford, Shock Wave

“of anything, so he called Davenport and told him what was going on.”
― John Sandford, Shock Wave