The Drifter (Peter Ash #1)

by Nicholas Petrie

Pain was just information. Information that should not interfere with your ability to do the job at hand.

perforated truck on a city street as autumn slid downhill toward winter, things weren’t always so clear. You tended to wonder, for example, what the fuck you were going to do with the rest of your life.

“Courage is doing something that scares the hell out of you. But you do it anyway. Your dad taught me that.”

Her sobs were wrenching and violent, as if she could barely gather breath between them, as if something were dying, or being born.

There are four times as many psychopaths in finance as in the general population. About the same percentage as in prisons. And these are supposed to be the fucking bastions of our society, the bankers and financiers.”