Silent Prey Quotes

“Does Raggedy Ann have a cotton crotch?”
― John Sandford, Silent Prey

“She had eyes that Rembrandt would have painted.”
― John Sandford, Silent Prey

“Her voice was stark as a winter crow.”
― John Sandford, Silent Prey

“O'Dell's driver was a broad man with a Korean War crew cut, his hair the color of rolled steel. A hatchet nose split basalt eyes, and his lips were dry and thick: a Gila monster's.”
― John Sandford, Silent Prey

“O'Dell led the way back: he was an actor, Lucas realized, rolling slowly down the restaurant like a German tank, nodding into some booths, pointedly ignoring others, the rolled copy of the Wall Street Journal whacking his leg.”
― John Sandford, Silent Prey

“His neck felt like sandpaper. If ring around the collar were a terminal disease, they'd be burying him.”
― John Sandford, Silent Prey

“The breeze smelled like the breath of an old man with bad teeth.”
― John Sandford, Silent Prey

“Fell finally led Lucas into a clothing store that apparently hadn't changed either stock or customers since '69. Every male customer other than Lucas was bearded, and three of the four women customers wore tie-dye. Lucas bought an ill-fitting leather porkpie hat. In the mirror, he looked like a hippie designer's idea of an Amazon explorer.”
― John Sandford, Silent Prey

“This could be handled. Everything can be handled by he who waits.”
― John Sandford, Silent Prey

“He glanced at his watch: three twenty-seven in the afternoon, more or less. With a Rolex, he'd discovered, more or less had to be good enough.”
― John Sandford, Silent Prey

“table, a chest of drawers, a window seat, a color television with a working remote, and a closet with a light that came on automatically when he opened it. He went to the closet, pulled out a briefcase and opened it on the bed. Inside was a monocular, a cassette recorder with a phone clip, and a Polaroid Spectra camera with a half-dozen rolls of film. Excellent. He closed the briefcase, made a quick trip to the bathroom, and rode back down to the street. A bellhop, loitering in the phone-booth-sized lobby, said, “Cab, Mr. Davenport?” “No. I’ve got a car coming,” he said. Outside, he hurried down the street to a breakfast bar, got a pint of orange juice in a wax carton, and went back outside. After leaving Fell the night before, he’d gone to Lily’s apartment and given her the key impressions. Lily knew an intelligence officer”
― John Sandford, Silent Prey

“to his cheek, and went back to the bed.”
― John Sandford, Silent Prey

“them. It”
― John Sandford, Silent Prey

“scooter. Four more squads were double-parked farther up the street. As Lucas paused at the trash basket, disposing of the orange, a”
― John Sandford, Silent Prey

“to somebody. It’s hard to believe he’d get a break”
― John Sandford, Silent Prey