Memory Man (Amos Decker, #1)

by David Baldacci

There could be no commiseration among such people despite the seeming commonality of loss, because it was actually each parent’s totally unique hell.

the shooter really been in the cafeteria?

Decker was a brave man, because you did not go into his line of work without being braver than average. But he was also scared, because you did not go into his line of work, or at least survive very long in it, without a commonsensical understanding of your own mortality.