I Am Pilgrim

by Terry Hayes

members of the intelligence community were as subject to human frailty as the population in general. More so, probably.

Krav Maga instructors will tell you that the mistake most people make when they fight is to punch someone’s head really hard. The first thing you break is your knuckles. For that reason, a real professional clenches his or her fist and uses the side of it like a hammer hitting an anvil.

People say love is weak, but they’re wrong: love is strong. In nearly everyone it trumps all other things – patriotism and ambition, religion and upbringing. And of every kind of love – the epic and the small, the noble and the base – the one that a parent has for their child is the greatest of them all. That

it’s the unquestioned assumptions that get you every time.

Edmund Burke said the problem with war is that it usually consumes the very things that you’re fighting for – justice, decency, humanity