I Am Pilgrim

by Terry Hayes

the first law of forensic science is called Locard’s Exchange Principle and it says “every contact between a perpetrator and a crime scene leaves a trace.”

Natzweiler-Struthof

Santorini.

Edmund Burke said the problem with war is that it usually consumes the very things that you’re fighting for—justice, decency, humanity—and I couldn’t help but think of how many times I had violated our nation’s deepest values in order to protect them.

“Forget the evidence. Evidence is a list of the material you’ve got. What about the things you haven’t found? What do you call that—unimportant?”