He turned to her, his eyeballs gone dark as slate. "You don’t get it, do you? You can’t even see it when it’s right in front of you. This is it , Jude. The rest of the crap here is just so much cheesy bullshit, you could see stuff like that in Romania, but this "—he slapped the glass—"this is America , goddamn it!" He took a deep breath. "And I want it."