Broken

by Don Winslow

There’s a word for a man who believes in coincidence: the defendant.

No one knows how the chimp got the revolver. Only that it’s a problem.

“Every word you say after ‘but’ means every word you said before it is bullshit,”

Behavior that was cute when you were in your twenties becomes aggravating in your thirties, pathetic in your forties and tragic in your fifties.

Cal runs into him in the hallway, and the post commander tells him he won’t put up with any “cowboy shit” in his unit. Then you probably shouldn’t have hired a cowboy, Cal thinks.