"She wondered what it said about her that she’d watched a woman shot to death not two hours before and all she could think about now was lunch."

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“I’ve been through a lot of hearings about one damn thing and another. Most of the time they’re exercises in ass covering. If the unvarnished truth ever came out at one, it would be because someone screwed up.”

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