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Outside the curtained windows, Paris stewed in its miasma of self-congratulation and diesel fumes.
Hunter/Victim (1988)
The trip to South Lake took another three hours. Blackwell stared out the window the whole time looking at nothing, which is to say, New Jersey.
Hunter/Victim (1988)
It might have meant something, or it might not have. That was the thing about uncertainty, you were never sure.
Hunter/Victim (1988)
I beg of you to take this warning seriously, even though these people may be crazies. Since the invention of gunpowder, crazies have been bad news.
Hunter/Victim (1988)
He was the sort of man the essence of whose presence is absence.
Hunter/Victim (1988)
Dickerson watched the telephone like a man looking at a sleeping cobra. It could spring into virulent life at any moment, bite him with its hollow fangs, flood his system with the intellectual equivalent of poison, force him to leave the tried-and-true path of safe routine and jump into the dangerous and unpredictable unknown.
Hunter/Victim (1988)
Then the red telephone rang.
Dickerson’s heart gave a tremendous lurch. He closed his eyes, composing himself by reciting the mantra Dr. Mensch had given him: “Om mane padme hum, I smell the blood of an Englishmun.”
Hunter/Victim (1988)
There was a moist, fertile, decaying sort of odor in the air. Florida was the sort of place that always seemed to be threatening to slip out of time and go back to the Paleozoic where it belonged. The light was a tawny gold filtered through a fragmented wall of green.
Hunter/Victim (1988)
We of the Hunt are part of the solution. We offer voluntary murder as a substitute for war. You know that mankind will never be satisfied unless it is killing something. People can’t even properly enjoy a landscape unless there’s something moving across it that can be shot at.
Hunter/Victim (1988)