24 Quotes by Davis Bunn

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

I was thinking...""We know," Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker

The afternoon's glory was tainted by the voice on the other end. "I was so very sorry not to have the pleasure of meeting you, Mr. Haines. You're not living up to your part of the bargain.

A steel door clapped open as a guard stepped from the bulletproof viewing station across the hall. "Adams!" "That you?" "I told you, I don't know-" The cop pointed straight at him. "Jeffrey Adams! Front and center!" The black man helped him rise to his feet. "Ain't everybody gets called back from the pit, man. Question is, what are you gonna do when you find out who you are?

He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.

The distance had been evaporated by humor

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.

Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.