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...other members of the U.S. Air Force security police posted there. Then something caught his eye. Below he saw a white Chevrolet Caprice pulling into a public parking lot adjacent to the compound. Nothing odd about that, but the car was being followed closely by a large tanker truck, and the two vehicles were driving slowly along the edge of the lot. Directly opposite Building 131, where Guerrero stood watching, the Mercedes-Benz tanker backed up to the 10-ft.-high chain-link fence that separated the lot from the military area. Two men leaped out of the truck...
Indeed, one of the reasons Johnson flies faster than anyone else is that he is so well grounded. He grew up in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, the son of Paul Johnson, a truck driver, and Ruby Johnson, a teacher. They instilled in Michael and his brother and three sisters a sense of discipline and an appreciation for learning. "My folks," says Michael, "are the kind of people who wouldn't want you to make too much of their influence. They would say they were just doing their job, and they would be right. It tells you something about...
...bombing, and threatening more attacks if the foreign troops "occupying the holy Saudi land" did not leave. In Khobar, the investigation of the cordoned-off blast site is underway. An FBI team equipped to search through the rubble for clues is hunting for pieces of the fuel truck that carried the 5,000-pound bomb. Even before the phone call claiming responsibility, suspicion had begun to settle on Islamic fundamentalists opposed to the U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia. At least one of these shadowy extremist groups threatened the U.S. with retaliation after four of its members were beheaded...
...people, Proulx often introduces parenthetical flash-forwards detailing the ways in which her characters will die: "(Some year or two later, Snakes, using a climbing rope with a single core in a color pattern of purple, neon pink, teal and fluorescent yellow, hung himself in the cab of his truck. A note on the seat read, 'I'm not going to wear glasses.')" The emphasis in this passage pervades the entire novel: things survive and are worth careful descriptions, while people are passing fancies. That could have been conveyed more economically than it is in this disappointing book...
However, if bargain ice cream is what you seek, an ice cream truck parks next to Dunster House at the intersection of DeWolfe St. and Memorial Drive every Sunday of the summer...