I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Keep cool and you command everybody.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.