Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper’s aim.

His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.

It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.

The afternoon’s glory was tainted by the voice on the other end. “I was so very sorry not to have the pleasure of meeting you, Mr. Haines. You’re not living up to your part of...

A steel door clapped open as a guard stepped from the bulletproof viewing station across the hall. “Adams!” “That you?” “I told you, I don’t know-” The cop pointed straight at him. “Jeffrey Adams! Front...

The distance had been evaporated by humor

God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

Sometimes I need a place to ask myself impossible questions.

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word “servant”.

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

I was thinking…””We know,” Pedro said, “It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker

Whenever has a woman’s heart listened to her head?

He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman’s manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.