Pitcher known as "Tom Terrific"

Usage examples of seaver.

They stood on the platform ten feet from Seaver, waiting for something.

But Seaver believed in outside consultants, and he was confident that they would solve these problems, one by one.

Earl accelerated down the ramp onto the San Diego Freeway Seaver stared at the bottom of the first overpass.

The lips came together like a kiss in a studied pout that Seaver knew should have been repellent but made him wish that Earl were dead.

A few of them chatted affably, but Seaver knew it was all harmless banter.

What she had been hiding was a whole lot worse than Seaver had imagined.

For that matter, Seaver had always heard that these old families still expected a son to make his bones before he could be trusted with business matters, and Vincent Junior had been running the Inside Straight for at least ten years.

In order to miss this guy, Seaver would have to be about twenty years late.

When he raised his face again his blue eyes were opaque, but Seaver could tell he was taking the offer seriously.

There was a better than even chance that the mail would be picked up by some intermediary, and Seaver would have to follow the package.

If that package went into the postal system before Seaver knew the address, he would have no idea whether it was going to an apartment a block away or to Ethiopia.

In the light, Seaver could easily have passed for a prosperous middle-aged executive coming home from a restaurant.

If Seaver heard the click of a car door latch, he would move the hand a few more inches and grasp the gun.

Just as Seaver acknowledged that he now had the task of killing this one too, the driver pushed a button to roll up the window and accelerated up the street.

It was possible that Seaver had scared Stillman so badly that he had cooked up a box number on the spot.