"I could tell that, unlike the last time Johnny and I fought, he was stone-sober."
"It was at this precise moment that Graham knew, with a sudden icy certainty, that he was stone-sober and that the story he had been listening to was nothing less than the truth."
"Violent crime rates are not skyrocketing here, but are in Europe; and suicidal, insane, and sometimes even stone-sober murderers from the lunatic fringe, left and right, wreak havoc in increasing numbers whether on idyllic Norwegian islands, U.S. Army bases, or quiet college campuses."