What is "bennie"

Usage examples of "bennie".

What, exactly, Bennie Milagros's business might be wasn't known to any official entity of the United States.

What I do in life—" Bennie paused as he made another pass at the wahoo's elusive gill slit.

He dropped the glass rod to the pitching deck as, with a sickening lurch, the tiger shark surfaced again, coming right at Bennie.

Croaker used his right hand to grab Bennie by the back of his shirt collar, hauling backward.

Could Bennie have been such a poor shot, even at point-blank range or was the prehistoric beast's body unaware as yet that it was dead?

The leading edge of its double-rowed teeth grazed the inside of Bennie's right forearm and he gasped.

It was on the inside of Bennie's right arm and had come very close to the large median vein.

They were in Croaker's 1969 flamingo and white T-bird, which, Bennie loved to say, wallowed like a pig but rode at top speed like a magic carpet.

This was not the street-smart cocky businessman most people got to see, but the other Bennie Milagros, a deep thinker, a kind of philosopher who questioned everything in life.

Being half-Hispanic hadn't done him any harm, and having Bennie backing him with money and influence hadn't either.

Croaker said, recalling Bennie's description of Sonia as a pearl in an oyster.

Then she had it: Bennie's grandfather, that strange and sometimes frightening man, had used it on occasion.

She recalled Bennie's grandfather—a tall, stoop-shouldered man with craggy brows and a thick pure white mustache—with a preternatural clarity.

He saw Bennie coming around the side of a white house with pale blue trim.

Croaker could see no sign of footprints, but at one point he got down on one knee to show Bennie what appeared to be a run of parallel lines bruising the wet and glistening grass.