A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.

It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.

Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

Chronic sexual predators [to Vachss, pedophiles] have crossed an osmotic membrane. They can’t step back to the other side - our side. And they don't want to. If we don't kill them or release them, we have but one choice. Call them monsters and isolate them.... I’ve spoken to many predators over the years. They always exhibit amazement that we do not hunt them. And that when we capture them, we eventually let them go. Our attitude is a deliberate interference with Darwinism - an endangerment of our species.

Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.