The Secret Witness (Shepard & Gray #1)

by Victor Methos

“That’s like lava boiled inside a microwaved Hot Pocket,”

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Anxiety hit his stomach, like something slick and cold had crawled down his throat.

“Category zero. No incentive to kill other than the killing itself. A person who only wants the world to die. Every culture has a term for a person like that. The earliest reference I found was umilac. It’s an ancient Sumerian word that doesn’t have an equivalent translation. The closest thing we have is boogeyman, but that doesn’t compare to the implication the Sumerians were trying to get across. It roughly translates to bleeding soul. It’s the rarest type of human being there is.”

I think the goal of life is to change money for time, not time for money. Because we all run out of time first. People don’t realize that and waste their lives, and by the—excuse the pun—time they figure it out, it might be too late. Their lives are on autopilot.”

He always said the key to being a good leader was kindness. That anybody could get their men to fear them, but only real leaders could get their men to love them.

“No one’s normal. There’s no adults in the world, Billie. We’re all just faking it.”