Here he was, John Tanner, the respected Director of News for Standard Mutual, hiding in a darkened alley-filthy, soaked, a bullet crease in his shoulder and a swelling bruise on his leg from a driver intent on murder-silently watching Jim and Nancy come out of the Pub.

What looked like a bullet crease across the left temple.

A bullet crease marks his forehead above the same eye.

I think I've got a bullet crease on my leg.

After they rescued him from the riverbank, the Czech police had taken down his account of the vicious attack that had killed Valentin Petrenko and brought in a medic to patch up the bullet crease across his shoulder.

He was about forty-five, just going gray at the temples, with a scar that looked like a bullet crease on his right forearm.

I had to move the part a year back to match a bullet crease in my scalp.

Plenty of times they'd been fired on when they stopped to ask for shelter, and Rusty carried the scar of a bullet crease across his left cheek.