It was bad enough to be swallowed up by the intrinsic anger of New York City traffic and its seemingly mad competition between cars, cabs, the ubiquitous delivery trucks, the kamikaze bike messengers and the always-in-a-damn hurry pedestrians.

“It's easy to romanticize after a couple of centuries.”

“It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.”

“Hold on.” Beckett shot out a hand, shoved Ryder back. “Are you saying Mom and W…”

“He worked for two hours, perfecting the storyline-the situation, the setup, the…”