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...agrees to look for the missing partner because he fears his own high-paying job at Gage & Griswell may be in jeopardy; if he succeeds, he should be able to coast on his partners' gratitude for a few more years. The idea of the chase appeals to the ex-cop in him. And the job may distract him from the dreariness of his personal life: his recent divorce, his unruly adolescent son, the drinking problem he hopes he has solved by abstinence...
...other great strength as a writer of popular entertainments. He is genuinely interested in showing what makes his characters behave the way they do. Mack remembers the late Leotis Griswell, one of the founding partners of his firm, saying, "So much of life is will." Having seen -- as a cop and a lawyer -- enough malefactors blame everyone for their misdeeds except themselves, Mack would like to believe that people are free to make choices: "Better to find options than that bondage of cause and effect. It all goes back to Augustine. We choose the Good. Or the Evil...
...sides seem to be heading toward a compromise on that issue -- was fueled mainly by pique at being passed over by Clinton for Secretary of State. But that misses the essence of Nunn, who sees himself not merely as a dispenser of funds or a legislative traffic cop but as a benign steward of the military...
Assuming the allies finally follow (which seems likely, since their appetite for recalcitrance appears to have run its course), these minimeasures could begin almost immediately. "It's the ultimate cop-out to let them fight it out," says Lord Owen, who has been trying to broker a negotiated settlement for almost two years. Owen aside, there is no assurance that the genocide will moderate. Does anyone seriously think the Serbs will picnic as their opponents arm, or that they'll suddenly respect the lightly defended enclaves where innocents have gathered to escape the slaughter, the so-called safe havens they...
Sally is arrested for murdering a white man, perhaps a lover, perhaps a rapist, with a carving knife (once, Erickson has it, she had tried to stab Jefferson). The cops have a patrol car and a radio, so this is the 20th century. Sally is, or is not, somewhere else, someone else. A huge black cop, Wade, searches obsessively for Mona, a woman he met years ago at a strip joint called the Fleurs d'X. She may be Sally or a daughter, or not. The city is Aeonopolis, and it could be San Francisco, much decayed, if San Francisco...