The Doorman: A Novel

by Chris Pavone

One in a million are low odds, sure. But not if you’re the one.

It can be a dangerous mistake to laugh at a man’s ridiculousness.

Most mistakes boiled down to the same thing: trusting the wrong person.

So maybe the current system wasn’t so fucked-up. Maybe it was the old system that had been fucked-up. Or maybe both were different types of fucked-up.

Sometimes a solution to a problem was just a matter of calling it something else.

“‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.’ That’s Nelson Mandela.”

It’s only in hindsight that you can identify when everything was as close to perfect as it would ever be.