Michael Kerr

“a liberated man, and what I do has nothing to do with anybody but me and my whore of a mother. She has to pay.” “I thought that your parents lived down south, Hugh?” “You were meant to.  I watched my father die under a tractor, and spat on his dead face.   Later, I fixed my mother and”
― Michael Kerr, A Deadly Compulsion

“tick.  He was not a product of neglect, cruelty, or patterned as a result of being denied suckling at his mother’s tit.  He had not been physically or sexually abused, that he could remember. He was his own man, not”
― Michael Kerr, Lethal Intent