“Danger is another thing that’s more romantic to read about than the reality of blood and burns and the screams transcending age and gender and even humanity. Pain can be a sound, pure sound, and pictures can’t prepare you for the smell of a man trying to stuff his intestines back into his ripped abdomen.”

“Danger is another thing that’s more romantic to read about than the reality of blood and burns and the screams transcending age and gender and even humanity. Pain can be a sound, pure sound, and pictures can’t prepare you for the smell of a man trying to stuff his intestines back into his ripped abdomen.”

— David Drake