Manipulate? Yes, I manipulated. And despite the ensuing events, I would do so again, for it is the function of psychiatry to encourage the living to … - Lucius Shepard

Things Specialist Charles N. Wilson Wants You To Know · · · · · 1: Everything I've ever known has been no more than a powerful conviction. 2: Nothing motivates like sex and death and sound effects. 3: Politics is the Enemy. 4: Jesus and Mohammed would probably hang out together.

That the official and the criminal are inextricably aligned should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the workings of their government, but nowhere is this juxtaposition so literal and apparent as in Mexico City.

It was easy to see how one could think of the family as a single terrible creature stretching back through time, some genetic flaw or chemical magic binding the spirit to the blood.