Christa Faust

“Allan smiled to himself at his overly cautious thinking. After all, how often did the police get called by the denizens of…

— Christa Faust

“Hey,” he replied. “Got a light?” she asked, raising an unlit cigarette to her chapped lips.”

— Christa Faust

“You know, Dean said, gesturing with his uninjured hand. If we were in an action movie, this would be the scene where…

— Christa Faust

“Where the hell is Nina?”

— Christa Faust

“No problem,” he was saying. “We’re gonna be okay. We’re insured.”

— Christa Faust

“Although Walter was the first to admit that his own memory wasn’t the best—that he forgot people’s names all the time even…

— Christa Faust

“All the madness, all the mayhem, all the strange and heavy events of the past twenty-four hours were melting, too, washed away…

— Christa Faust

“I’m fairly certain that, because Belly was distracted and wound up linked with you instead of me, my own chemically enhanced ability…

— Christa Faust

“So from here on out, we need to find a way to fight the killer with brains, not brawn. Attack this problem…

— Christa Faust

“There was no tiger. No intruder. No signs of a break-in.”

— Christa Faust

“Just these,” Nina replied, holding up a fist full of balsa wood chopsticks. “That’s okay,” Walter said, tipping the box to his…

— Christa Faust

“The most common double-letter pairing in the English language being the double L, of course, challenged only by the double T.”

— Christa Faust

“It uses twenty-six substitution ciphers,” he told her. “One for each letter of the alphabet. But the problem is that it requires…

— Christa Faust

“Information that might be useful—or at least good to know before we open the way again. Forewarned is forearmed.”

— Christa Faust

“Back in Nina’s large Spartan bedroom, the three of them plunked their sore, beat-up frames into the same seats they’d chosen before…

— Christa Faust

“So, she wasn’t tripping with us, but somehow our own heightened psychic abilities caused any latent power in her to be activated,…

— Christa Faust

Hell's a dry heat too. It still sucks. Let me know if you pull anything. I'm gonna go get a cold beer…

— Christa Faust

“He would feel horrible if anything happened to her and her baby, all because of him.”

— Christa Faust

“Four minutes,” Walter said, “seems like four hours.”

— Christa Faust

“I wouldn’t want to be summarily exterminated by aliens who judged the whole human race on the behavior of Charles Manson, for…

— Christa Faust

“The water around his legs was the only thing that seemed real.”

— Christa Faust

“Why didn’t he show up?”

— Christa Faust

“As they stood there, anguished wails continued to come from within.”

— Christa Faust

“Walter and Bell glanced at each other, neither one relishing the idea of being the brave hero who found the escaped tiger…

— Christa Faust

“Embarrassment has no place in scientific method!” Walter said brusquely.”

— Christa Faust