“The CIA agent looked more dead than alive. Alex wondered if he had been hit, but there was no sign of any blood. Perhaps he was in shock.”
“He smelled more powerfully like himself now that he was dead than he had when he was alive.”
“He works for the CIA. Johnny Redyellow is his name, but I just simply call him Agent Orange.”
“She had always loved him, after all. And perhaps he knew it. Perhaps he saw more than she had suspected. And despite it, he did not look away.”
“The savagery of the picture strange and alluring, Frank smeared with blood and absolutely at ease. Barbarian, primitive, visceral; if Tony had been given to myth-making, he would have wondered if there could be any more frightening god than one who was simultaneously provider and destroyer.”
“In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.”