"Someday he'll have his shit together right. He'll live in a house, and it will be clean as Lucky Dragon. All lit up l…"

"Everything to Fontaine, had a story. Each object, each fragment comprising the built world. A chorus of voices, the p…"

"“[Harwood] is the richest man in the world and ahead of the curve. He’s an agent of change, and massively invested in…"

"The knife's plain haft, against his ribs, through a starched evening shirt. The handles of a craftman’s tools bespeak…"

"San Francisco and Los Angeles seemed more like different planets than different cities."

"Security wants to know you're a player. Otherwise, you'd steal. Boomzilla understands that."

"Whenever they went to bed, it had seemed more like making history than love."

""And I'm safer with you than I am with these guys you say are mercs?" "I think so, yes," the man said, frowning, as t…"

"They were there, seated in strange, Chinese-looking chairs that hadn't been there before. One of them was a thin, pal…"

"Harwood, most often depicted as a twenty-first-century synthesis of Bill Gates and Woody Allen, had never previously …"