Status Updates From Cause of Death

But that, of course, is the essential task of our profession: to be detectives, sifting through the lies and errors and the misdirection so that, ultimately, we can arrive at the splendid reality - an approximation of how the events of the past truly unfurled.

I'm not altogether upset that, for a change, I have participated in history and not merely recorded and analyzed it.

Our tech people turned the autodial on your phone into a microphone and transmitter. Simple hack. For a hacker.

I had to get inside a prison. There, the cons don't mind if you beat on your woman. Actually, scores you points.

...if he is armed, I don't care. I was dead five minutes ago. Every moment is now a gift and even if he shoots me I'll finish him. Pax's murderer will die.

Professors are forever investigating students' possible plagiarism and cheating; we learn the body language of deceit early in our careers.