Ok, I just started a book called "The Amber Room" By Steve Berry. I'm 17 pages in and I can tell this book'll rock already...
"'You're a ******** b***h.'
'That's going to cost you a hundred dollars. Payable now. Along with another hundred for the stunt in the courtroom.'
'I'm entitled to a hearing before you find me in contempt.'
'True. But you don't want that. It'll do nothing for that chauvinistic image you go out of your way to portray.'
He said nothing, and she could feel the fire building. Nettles was a heavyset, jowled man with a reputation for tenacity, surely unaccustomed to taking orders from a women.
'And every time you show off that big a** of yours in my court, it's going to cost you a hundred dollars.'
He stepped toward the desk and withdrew a wad of money, peeling off two one-hundred-dollar bills, crisp new ones with the swollen Ben Franklin. He slapped both on the desk then unfolded three more.
'******** you.'
One bill dropped.
'******** you.'
The second bill fell.
'******** you.'
The third Ben Franklin fluttered down."
(Berry, Pg 17)
 Pressure Sensative · Wed Oct 24, 2007 @ 02:32am · 0 Comments |
