Hoot

by Carl Hiaasen

Now he understood what was going to happen to the little owls if he did his job properly, and it weighted him with an aching and unshakeable sorrow.

Again, Officer Delinko might not be a genius but he’s got a good heart. In every book, characters are eventually defined by the choices they make. I think that’s true in life, too. Sometimes you have to bend the rules to do the right thing.