Velocity Weapon (The Protectorate, #1)

by Megan E. O'Keefe

His studies had taught him that instinct and truth were not always twins.

Accidents of geography: setting perfectly ordinary people at one another’s throats since the Stone Age.

“We can have all the data in the world, but talking through it makes for better decisions.

Data is just leverage to get people talking, that’s when you discover the truth.”

“Being offended by facts is a long human tradition.”

If he was going to be an ass, he was about to find out she was far more practiced at assholery.

If looks could kill, she thought, I’d be a serial killer by now!