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

"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…"

"Specialist dealers wanted low wholesale, basically, so they could whip the big markup to collectors. If you were a co…"

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

"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…"

"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 …"