Memory Man (Amos Decker, #1)

by David Baldacci

It was all still just happening. However, the news would pick it up and then not let it go. Until the next shooting came along. Then they would rush headlong that way. Until the next one.

Results in the real world came from slow, dogged work, compiling facts and building conclusions and deductions based on those facts. And a little luck never hurt either.

He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit.

He knew exactly what it was like to lose a child. And that fact wouldn’t matter in the least in this circumstance. There could be no commiseration among such people despite the seeming commonality of loss, because it was actually each parent’s totally unique hell.

Now we know there are many other factors involved. It’s often better to wait and come to understand each person’s unique situation and to allow the patient to have substantial input into the decision. I mean, it’s their body and life after all.”