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«Marshall didn't look anything like Lennon; he looked like something that would have eaten Lennon,»

«The problem was, Lucas was going through a whole series of relationships with women because I had a feeling that women readers like to read about romantic involvements ... along with the thriller aspects of the books. [But] if you introduce a new female character in a series that's lasted as long as this one, [Lucas] begins to sound more like a sexual predator than a guy who's really genuinely involved with the people he's dealing with. So I decided to tone down the romantic relationships between Lucas and other women, and have him focus on one woman.»

«[Part of that unpredictability is the way Davenport works with the media.] I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues, ... I also have a problem with the fact that law enforcement people, including Davenport, lie to and game the media and try to bend things into a shape that will reflect on them the best, whether or not that has anything to do with the way things should be.»

«When I was reporting crime ... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies, or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart. That's my sense of how crime works, that it's not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating. Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness. Davenport does represent order in this.»