Field of Prey Quotes

“It’s the way of the world, man. There are the worker bees, and the manager bees. The worker bees take care of the work, the manager bees take care of themselves.”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“I could live here,” Del said. “No, you couldn’t. You’d turn into a coot and hang out at the general store, with your fly down,” Lucas said. “You’d be known for goosing middle-aged women. You’d be the town embarrassment.”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“Scratching their nails on the blackboard of futility.”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“It reeks of the incorrect. Possibly even the Republican.”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“The feds say a novice shooter can fire three times in a second—and a trained man can fire twice that many,” Lucas said. “With four trained officers there, all shooting, twenty rounds total, they probably were firing for a second or so. Not as much as two seconds.” Frost was silent for a moment—taking notes, Lucas hoped—then said, “Somehow, though, it doesn’t seem fair, four policemen, behind their cars . . .” Lucas hesitated, then said, “Well, Janet, it wasn’t supposed to be fair. This wasn’t High Noon. The Woodbury officers were attempting to stop an armed bank robber who opened fire on them. This is not a video game where you get a do-over. When Kent opened fire, somebody was going to get shot, and the police officers involved were desperately anxious that it not be them. Go look at a gunshot wound sometime, and you’ll see why.”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“Scratching their fingernails on blackboards of futility.”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“off the couch when they walked in, and said, “Whelp, I got a lesson in twenty minutes, I better get to work.” “Work” was a golf course, where he was a teaching pro. When Rex had gone in the Cadillac, Lucas introduced Mattsson and Elle; Jorgenson settled the other two women on the couch, and Lucas in a La-Z-Boy. “I have to tell you that I’m a little upset by all this,” she said. “I never believed that Horn was still out there. I thought he’d crawled off somewhere and died, or was gone to Brazil or something. I mean, I am so scared. I got Rex to put his gun under the bed.” “I think he’d have a hard time finding you, that you wouldn’t hear about it before he got here,” Lucas said. “Oh, pish,” she said. “If he knows anything about computers, he could find me in”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“It’s the way of the world, man. There are the worker bees, and the manager bees. The worker bees take care of the work, the manager bees take care of themselves.” •”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“but failed, and”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“rather than rolling it down the”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“Lucas dropped by, and recognized Kent from newspaper photos.”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“He wasn’t a big fan of actual blood. He wanted submission, and sex, and . . . admiration? Well, fear, anyway. Respect.”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“pleasant-enough place, as cemeteries went, and if somebody had told him that he’d be buried there, after a life of, say, a hundred forty years and much more sex and barbecue, he would have been content with the prospect.”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“From what I hear, if we’re going down to the well—the cistern—we’re gonna want to burn the clothes afterwards,” Del said. “I’d rather burn a polyester shirt than a two-thousand-dollar Italian suit. Or three-thousand-dollar Romanian shoes.” “British shoes. And when you’re right, you’re right.”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“Lipsky said: “I’ll tell you something, Layton: ninety-five percent it’s nothing. Probably somebody shot a buck out of season, and you were smelling the gut dump. Those can be pretty hard to see in the dark, once they go gray. But, five percent, we gotta go look.”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“There was some confusion at the beginning, when Layton unrolled the first rubber, rather than rolling it down the erect appendage, and was reduced to trying to pull it on like a sock.”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“dealing with a . . . peculiarity. A week after”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“her. “From what you’ve told us, the killer”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“doing this for a long time, honey. I’d be”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“there, looking for a man they wouldn’t find. They’d go because they’d know for sure that Horn couldn’t be in Goodhue County, where he’d be known and chased on sight. . . . Horn had suggested another step: killing a woman from the Alexandria area, still farther”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“TV. It’s like if you’re not on it, you don’t exist. The single most pernicious idea in our culture.”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“any dairies or pig farms around there. We could”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“don’t have them all, yet.”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey

“down”
― John Sandford, Field of Prey