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"The system needs blood..."

Stunningly excellent.

Top shelf.

"... if we could shed the moral superiority of societies that do their killing out of sight."

"Life-size wax replicas of Julie and Ethel were strapped in. They wore steel-plate dunce caps to shoot them the juice. The dummies were knock-you-dead realistic. Their facial sets were perfectly etched.

Shell flipped a wall switch. Sound effects kicked on. A generator whined, buzzed, and crackled. Julie and Ethel shimmy-shimmied. Their acrylic hair ignited. Smoke blew out their ears."

Indeed.

"James Ellroy is the American Dostoyevsky."
-Joyce Carol Oates

"... it's always, always the darkest part of the picture that shines the most,..."

"The Central American journey toward the false promised land is like climbing the slopes of Everest: the higher you get the less air there is to breathe, the more your body aches, the hardest challenges coming when you are at your weakest. At every step, the migrant trail offers only one deal: surrender yourself."

"The best place to chat with a migrant is on top of the hurtling train. You're considered an equal there. You're in their territory and have, by boarding the train, signed a pact of solidarity. You share cigarettes, water, food, and are ready to defend the train from attack if necessary. The pact ends when you get off the train."

"Death isn't simple in El Salvador. It's like a sea: you're subject to its depths, its creatures, its darkness. Was it the cold that did it, the waves, a shark? A drunk, a gangster, a witch? They didn't have a clue."