Niezhsky is back! The hard-drinking detective with the weird sense of humor, still grumpy and unpredictable, is plodding through tedious arson and murder cases with predictable outcomes when his sense of adventure lures him into a nationwide chase. Terrorists have killed two American citizens in Canada, the crime scene indicates the murderers were making bombs. Niezhsky teams up with a Homeland Defense investigator stationed in Minnesota, but the chase takes them to California. In a playground of the spoiled rich, they realize the Assassin’s Target is the President of the United States. And there are many other targets!
作者簡介
“I write what I hear Americans saying, usually loud and angry. If Americans are ticked off about something, I know I’m on the right track.” Quixote Merrillees brings back the bad-tempered cop from “A STUDY OF MONSTERS”, this time to track down a group of Syrian fanatics who have been brewing explosives in a home lab. Their target? Niezhsky is convinced it’s President Obama, but he’s hindered by partisan politics and the Syrians are fast and tricky, they’re not leaving a trail of breadcrumbs.
章節
- Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
- Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the Leopard his spots?
- My daughter is even now dead; but come and lay Thy hand upon her,And she shall live.
- ...And at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head,And sent him away shamefully handled.
- By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery,They break out, and blood toucheth blood.
- Israel sent messengers unto the King of Edom...
- And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire;
- ...both the prophet and the priest go about into a land they know not.
- And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless,Hearing a voice, but seeing no man.
- We made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them...
- ...whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, even as a fatherthe son in whom he delighteth.
- ...but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law...
- Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
- And there shall you remember your ways, and all your doings,Wherein ye have been defiled...
- Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me.
- For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap,yet thine iniquity is marked before me...
- Thine own wickedness shall correct thee,and thy backslidings shall reprove thee:
- And they covet fields, and take them by violence;and houses, and take them away:So they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
- And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake themAnd without fail recover all.
- And the king spake, and said to the wise men of BabylonWhoever shall read me this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof,He shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck...
- ...I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are thou turnedinto the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
- ...And he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant...
- But put forth thine hand, now, and touch all that he hath,And he will curse thee to thy face.
- ...And set two men, sons of Belial, before him to bear witness against him,Saying ‘Thou didst blaspheme God and the king’. And then carry him out,And stone him, that he may die.
- O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things?
- Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men,And we will discover ourselves unto them.
- My heart is smitten and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.
- When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not,nor come to pass, that is a thing which the Lord hath not spoken......thou shalt not be afraid of him.
- ...if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will;but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her...
- If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess,Lying in the field and it be not known who hath slain him,Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth...
- ...His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud:Under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth.And they laughed him to scorn.
- Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air,And to the beasts of the field.
- And Nadab and Abihu...offered strange fire before the Lord,which he commanded them not.And there went out fire from the Lord and devoured them...
- Whither thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge:Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
- The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof,And they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof,As a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
- There is no hope: No; for I have loved strangers and after them will I go.
- Yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword:And I alone am escaped to tell thee.
- ...when the Lord shall have dealt well with my lord,then remember thine handmaid.
- I have said to corruption, Thou art my father:To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister
- ...what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son:for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
- I have many things to say, and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true,And I speak to the world of those things which I have heard of him.
- ...This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you:He will take your sons...
- If a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her,He shall surely endow her to be his wife.
- I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
- There were two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.
- Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evilMaketh himself a prey:
- And yet they would not hearken unto their judges,But they went a-whoring after other gods,And bowed themselves unto them...
- ...behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances:And she was his only child.
- ...if thou be a great people, get thee up to the wood country...
- When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying:Thou hast clothing, be thou our rulerAnd let this ruin be under thy hand...
- And it came to pass, through the lightness of her whoredom,That she defiled the land,And committed adultery with stones...
- Then hear thou in Heaven and forgive the sin of thy servants...And teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon the land...
- ...if the good man of the house had known what hour the thief would come,he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
- Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair. Thou hast dove’s eyes.
- Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents:
- And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare,Ishmael.
- The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high;And thou shalt come down very low.
- ...he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution...
- The prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself...
- And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: In thy hills and in thy valleys,And in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain...
- ...and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me...
- And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, thou shalt help me...
- ...thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avengethe blood of my servants...
- All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
- Wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence, but the excellency of knowledge isThat wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
- A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me;He shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
- And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forthHim that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones.
- Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to rideUpon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there King of Israel.
- Behold, ye trust in lying words, ye cannot profit.
- Lift up thine eyes unto the high places…
- It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman.
- And the Lord said unto Satan, behold, all that he hath is in thy power...
- I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood,And will cut him off from among his people.
- ...whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I received anybribe, to blind mine eyes therewith?
- As thy sword hath made women childless, so shalt thy motherBe childless among women
- Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over;Lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.
- Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee,And will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon theeAll thine abominations.
- He that cometh against them shall doAccording to his own willAnd none shall stand before him:And he shall stand in the Glorious Land,Which by his handShall be consumed.
- Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour…but woeTo him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
- The Lord hath chastened me sore, but he hath not given me over unto Death.
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