Destroyer Angel: An Anna Pigeon Novel (Anna Pigeon Mysteries)
“Leah would have rolled her eyes if they hadn’t been frozen in place by sheer terror. The man was a bad joke. If he hadn’t become a thug, he’d have found a place as a petty bureaucrat, enjoying the power to thwart, delay, and lose paperwork. A gun and a lack of parental supervision allowed Sean’s juvenile despotism to flourish to a point he could torment those he hated—everyone, Leah expected—a little bit more than he hated himself.
War let the Seans of the world step from behind their desks and... counters, out of their kiosks, and into a place beyond their darkest dreams, where victims were abundant and consequences did not exist. In Hitler’s Germany, Sean would have been a low-ranking Nazi; at Abu Ghraib, a sneering guard; at Guantánamo, an avid torturer.
Along her left arm and thigh, Leah could feel the unfamiliar warmth of Katie’s body. The human being, the child this creature would defile. Her child. Leah seldom thought of her that way. Usually, if she thought of Katie at all, it was as Gerald’s child.MoreLess
War let the Seans of the world step from behind their desks and... counters, out of their kiosks, and into a place beyond their darkest dreams, where victims were abundant and consequences did not exist. In Hitler’s Germany, Sean would have been a low-ranking Nazi; at Abu Ghraib, a sneering guard; at Guantánamo, an avid torturer.
Along her left arm and thigh, Leah could feel the unfamiliar warmth of Katie’s body. The human being, the child this creature would defile. Her child. Leah seldom thought of her that way. Usually, if she thought of Katie at all, it was as Gerald’s child.MoreLess
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