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Название книги: Blinded
Автор(ы): Stephen White
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Blinded-149609.html
Book 12 in the Dr. Alan Gregory series
PROLOGUE
SAMEvery cop knows the taste and the odor that assault the senses when tenderness collides with evil. It’s a baby coddled in a bassinet in a fume-filled meth shack. It’s the fractured face of someone’s grandma after a purse-snatcher has done his thing. It’s a pregnant woman bloodied and dead on the floor.I’d been a cop a long time. I knew the aroma. And I knew the taste.I did.It may sound goofy, but I also believed that on good days I could smell the spark before I smelled the fire and I could taste the poison before it reached my lips. On good days I could stand firm between tenderness and evil. On good days I could make a difference.What the heck is it about a woman sleeping? Okay, a woman who isn’t your wife of double-digit years.A woman was sleeping right beside me, no more than half a foot away. The spice of her perfume tickled the back of my throat, and the fire from inside her radiated right through my clothes. Yeah, I was paying attention to a thousand things I should hav
Название книги: Blinded
Автор(ы): Stephen White
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Blinded-149609.html
Book 12 in the Dr. Alan Gregory series
PROLOGUE
SAMEvery cop knows the taste and the odor that assault the senses when tenderness collides with evil. It’s a baby coddled in a bassinet in a fume-filled meth shack. It’s the fractured face of someone’s grandma after a purse-snatcher has done his thing. It’s a pregnant woman bloodied and dead on the floor.I’d been a cop a long time. I knew the aroma. And I knew the taste.I did.It may sound goofy, but I also believed that on good days I could smell the spark before I smelled the fire and I could taste the poison before it reached my lips. On good days I could stand firm between tenderness and evil. On good days I could make a difference.What the heck is it about a woman sleeping? Okay, a woman who isn’t your wife of double-digit years.A woman was sleeping right beside me, no more than half a foot away. The spice of her perfume tickled the back of my throat, and the fire from inside her radiated right through my clothes. Yeah, I was paying attention to a thousand things I should hav
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