Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.

Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.

Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.

Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.