I didn’t know much about Conspiracy, but I did know that its theorists were mostly paranoid and tended to value conviction above evidence. - Jasper Fforde

Whatever. As far as I can see, there is one state of dead and that’s ‘not living.’ Now, do you have anything useful to add to this investigation or not?”

Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?

“James Crometty!” demanded Bowden. “Did you kill him?”
“I kill a lot of people,” whispered Felix7. “I don’t remember names.”
“You shot him six times in the face.”
The dying killer smiled.
“That I remember.”
“Six times! Why?”
Felix7 frowned and started to shiver.
“Six was all I had,” he answered simply.