Sublime

Keep your guard up from now on. Even in this town, people aren’t as friendly as they used to be. Do you know why? Money. No matter where you go in the world, it’s always the same. The electric lights go on, money comes in and kindness vanishes. All the young guys from the North that I used to trade with have become pimps.”

Across the road from where she’s parked, aspens tumble down the basin toward Fish Lake, where five years earlier a Chinese refugee engineer took his three daughters camping on the way to visiting Yellowstone.

Room 219, LeConte Hall.

I am sorry about Fletcher Moon, but, as the Bible says, "A deal is a deal." Enclosed find some routine legal papers for you to sign. They empower me to run your half of the farm and the saw factory until your return, etc., etc. We are undergoing great privations here at home. Everything is going to the troops. A word of appreciation from

I dedicate it to Gerhard Müller, the Dresden taxi driver, too.

Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy rel

“What is that?” asked Ralph. “A Luger.” “Is that German?” “Yes. From the war.” “Vietnam?” “No, a different one.” “How did it get here?” “That, Ralph, is a very good question.”