"It can't be Naomi. Nothing bad could happen to her, not to Naomi." Chapter 8, p. 43.

"I'm like a killer shark, with a human brain, and even a heart... I am a predator without peer, a thinking predator." Chapter 9, p. 44.

"I'm alive, but I'm in hell!" Chapter 33, p. 132.

"I saw you watching the young chippie. Nice legs... Just as long as all you do is watch." Chapter 37, p. 152.

"Kate McTiernan was half blinded by the streaming bands of sunlight, but the world had never looked so beautiful." Chapter 44, p. 174.

"He had been a Southern gentleman. A gentleman scholar. Now he was the very finest gentleman in Los Angeles. Always a gentleman, though. A hearts-and-flowers kind of guy." Chapter 60, p. 231.

"Black on black for the good doctor ... Dressed to kill?" Chapter 65, p. 252.

"Many women want to be freed from their inhibitions, especially young women. I free them. I free as...