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1 " What grade does she teach?” “Eighth. Where kids make the jump from nice, innocent kids to something a lot more complicated and emotional drama runs deep and hormones are out of control. Some days she comes home looking like she got hit by a bus.” “In my book, all teachers are underpaid,” said Decker. "
― David Baldacci , The Fix (Amos Decker, #3)
2 " Decker stirred and pointed to a purple smudge on the back of Berkshire’s hand. “What’s that?” “Let’s have a closer look,” Wainwright said. She gripped a magnifying glass set on a rotating arm and positioned it over the mark. She turned on a light and aimed it at the dead woman’s hand. Peering through the glass, she said, “Appears to be a stamp of some sort.” Decker took a look through the glass. “Dominion Hospice.” He looked at Milligan, who was already tapping keys on his notebook. "
3 " If it’s not, it’s a coincidence the size of Russia.” “And you don’t believe in even small coincidences, I know.” He looked at the cup of tea, picked it up, and took a sip. “Todd ran the plate on the Camaro.” Jamison stiffened. “And?” “And it was stolen from a couple who live in Woodbridge. "
4 " Decker shook his head and stood. “It goes beyond mere eccentricity. She also has a run-down farmhouse and a crappy car that she drives to work and on her rounds as the proverbial Good Samaritan.” “What does that tell you?” “If you were a spy and had "
5 " the thrilling series by international number "
6 " No. "
7 " Decker gazed over at him. “You can still marry again. Have kids, Ross.” “I think raising kids is a younger man’s game. I’m not far off the big five-oh. "
8 " She works in the intelligence field. They’re trained to lie and sell it like the truth. They obviously undergo the same indoctrination as politicians. "
9 " Okay, the State Department has been on the horn to their counterparts in Moscow. They are disavowing all knowledge of any of this. "
10 " A minute of silence ticked by until Natalie said curtly, “What kind of a deal can I get? "
11 " turning "
12 " He had avenged the murders of his wife, daughter, and brother-in-law. But that did nothing to take away the loss, the pain. Nothing ever could. Time did not heal wounds for Decker. The passage of time was irrelevant to his unique mind. Everything he had ever experienced in life was as freshly minted in his brain as the moment it was created. "
13 " me. Usually it starts "
14 " It had forced him into being a different person, as though a stranger’s personality and attendant quirks had been superimposed over his own. But now the stranger’s footprint was Decker. I am now the stranger. I’m a stranger in my own body. "
15 " work there. "
