“Men like this, like Spearman, they don’t like to let them go. We need to chop through those roots and get closer to the tree,” Titus said. He ignored Warren’s dig about his past. He was used to the people who voted for him deifying his time with the Bureau and those who didn’t vote for him dismissing it. Titus thought if they knew why he’d stepped down, the roles would be reversed. He took no solace in that knowledge.

