The Butcher of Anderson Station (The Expanse, #1.5)

by James S.A. Corey

Combat ineffective. Such a nice euphemism for one of his kids bleeding out on a piece-of-shit station at the ass end of the Belt.

It was all very clean, very organized. Centuries of warfare in the electronic age had distilled it to this.

Every door he could see might have a family behind it who’d gasped out their last breaths banging to get out because a bunch of idiot Belters had built their barricades where they did. And because he’d chosen to destroy it.

They made me the poster boy for disproportional response. They made me a butcher.”