“Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best.”

More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends.

All lying – you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there’s a calamity.

Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one’s own intelligence.

Drew Chapman is a debut novelist to watch.

Apathy is grossly undervalued and never there for me when I need it.

Its unlikely hero, Garrett Reilly, reminded me of a young Jack Reacher as a tech-savvy bond analyst.

Anyone who’s had a shower and hasn’t ingested illegal narcotics within a couple of days stands out on a bench in the courthouse.

Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.

The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best.

Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

They were asked to listen to the facts and apply the law to the best of their ability in a case the world was watching.

Dopers become convinced they’ve hidden their stash so well a cop won’t find it. They’re always wrong.

Playing well with others isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets.

No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I’m jealous I didn’t write it.

Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.

The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Brown daughters are just fragile glass houses always on the verge of shattering.

The knife’s edge that separates failure from success in life. That edge is your attitude, which has the power to help shape your reality.

I did not feel ‘evil’ when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

Live on the edge. I’m only free because I’m not afraid. Everything I was afraid of already happened to me.

I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

And here, on the edge I look below where there are so many many unknowns.