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...certain it is that they must come together. Holliwell will find Father Charlie Egan and Sister Justin Feeney at the mysterious mission in Tecan. They will be joined by Pablo Tabor, a deserter from the Coast Guard and by far the wildest card in this deck. A homicidal speed freak ("Gimme a rush, Jesus. If you want me for a sunbeam"), Pablo signs on with Jack and Deedee Callahan, a permanently sloshed American couple who run guns in a cutter disguised as a shrimp boat. This work is not so easy or pleasant as it once was. Sizing up Pablo...
...mouse in which he is a jaded feline devising kinky ways to devour his characters. He takes great pains to create elaborate family trees, but they are ultimately rotten at their roots. It's no wonder he's so popular; his books are just one big freak show, with bizarre high jinks and cheap shocks introduced regularly to titillate his audience...
...sudden silences, she might, indeed, have seemed one of the dark and mournful shadows that haunted the house, one of its presages of doom ..." The Sitwell mystique centered on her extraordinary physical presence. Six feet tall, with the beaky, piercing look of a falcon, Edith would have appeared a freak if she had tried to resemble ordinary human beings. Instead she turned herself into something marvelously Gothic. She wore cowled headpieces, gold brocade robes, huge jet and ivory rings, and stared the world down with Byzantine eyes...
...family cooking responsibilities are his, and he bakes munchies for weekly proctorial study breaks. He says that he "enjoys tinkering with bicycles," and confesses, "I am a news freak. I just devour magazines and newspapers...
...Hilton made it difficult for the FBI to pinpoint the sequence of the multiple wounding. Studying the video tapes and the ballistics evidence, the FBI tentatively concluded that Reagan was hit after he had been doubled over by Agent Parr and was being pushed into his car. In a freak bit of chance, the bullet apparently bounced off the car's window frame and through the narrow gap between the open door and the car body...